Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corporation

Yasuhito Ueda

Hiroshi Takahashi

Takahiro Kokubo

Kazuo Watabe

Akihito Ogawa

Yuji Yamamoto

Takashi Usui

Hideaki Okano

Yuji Kubota

Shinichi Tatsuta

Toyonobu Yamada

Hisaaki Shimozu

Yoshiro Shinoda

An electric rotating machine according to an embodiment includes a stator, and a rotor that is rotatable about a rotational center. The stator includes a winding having an annular shape with the rotational center, a first core, and a second core. The first core surrounds a part of the winding, and has a pole face to which a magnetic flux is input in a first direction, and a pole face from which the magnetic flux is output in the first direction. The second core surrounds a part of the winding, and has a pole face to which a magnetic flux is input in a second direction, and a pole face from which the magnetic flux is output in the second direction. The rotor is positioned spaced from the first core and the second core, and is rotatable about the rotational center, relatively with respect to the stator.

Electric rotating machine, electric rotating machine system, vehicle, power generator, lifting device, and robot

An electric rotating machine according to an embodiment includes a stator element, a rotor element, and a housing. The rotor element is rotatable about a rotation axis. The housing houses the stator element and the rotor element, and is provided with an electric insulating portion on a part of or whole of an inner surface including a surface facing at least one of the stator element and the rotor element.

A rotary electric machine in an embodiment includes a stator, and a rotor capable of rotating around a rotation center. The rotor includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core, and a magnet. The first rotor core includes first rotor magnetic poles that are arranged being spaced apart from one another in a circumferential direction and that face first stator magnetic poles, and is annular. The second rotor core includes second rotor magnetic poles that are arranged being spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction and that face second stator magnetic poles, and is annular. The magnet is located between the first rotor core and the second rotor core and provided with a slit-like magnet separation portion that separates at least a part thereof in the circumferential direction, and is annular.

Rotary electric machine, rotary electric machine system, and machine

According to one embodiment, a rotating electrical machine includes a shaft, an annular winding, a stator, a rotor, and a core supporter. The annular winding extends in a rotation direction of the shaft. The stator core includes a plurality of stator magnetic poles. The plurality of stator magnetic poles are arranged along the winding. The rotor core includes a plurality of rotor magnetic poles. The plurality of rotor magnetic poles are configured to face the plurality of stator magnetic poles. The core supporter is configured to support at least one of the stator core and the rotor core. The core supporter includes a first insulating section. The first insulating section extends in an axial direction of the shaft. The first insulating section has a slit-shape.

Rotating electrical machine and robot device

According to one embodiment, a rotating electrical machine includes an annular winding, a stator core, and a rotor core. At least one of the stator core and the rotor core includes a first member and a second member. The first member and the second member are formed in annular shape. The first member and the second member overlap each other in an axial direction of the shaft. The first member includes a slit-shaped first insulation section. The first insulation section extends in the axial direction. The second member includes a slit-shaped second insulation section. The second insulation section extends in the axial direction. The first member and the second member are integrally connected. The first insulation section and the second insulation section are disposed at different positions in the rotation direction.

Rotating electrical machine, hoisting machine and elevator

According to one embodiment, an electrical machine includes a rotor and an armature. The armature includes first to third stator cores, and an armature coil. The first and second stator cores are arranged along a direction of a rotation axis of the rotor. The third stator core is arranged opposite to the first and second stator cores. The armature coil is provided between the first and second stator cores. The first and second stator cores have a same shape and each include magnetic poles and a first positioning part. The third stator core includes a second positioning part. A relative phase angle of the first stator core and a relative phase angle of the second stator core in the rotation direction are set by using the first positioning part and the second positioning part.

Skewed stator cores for improved torque and efficiency

According to one embodiment, a rotating electrical machine includes an annular winding, L (L is an arbitrary integer) stator magnetic poles, and L rotor magnetic poles having the same polarity. The L stator magnetic poles are disposed apart from each other in a rotational direction and facing the winding. The L rotor magnetic poles have the same polarity as each other. The L rotor magnetic poles are disposed apart from each other in the rotational direction and configured to face the L stator magnetic poles If an order of the fundamental wave component of a torque pulsation is N, M (M&#x2264;L) distances between centers of the adjacent poles between pole centers in one set of either the L stator magnetic poles or the L rotor magnetic poles are combinations of (&#x398;, &#x398;+&#x398;/M, &#x398;+&#x398;&#xd7;2/M, . . . , and &#x398;+&#xd7;(M&#x2212;1)/M), and &#x398;satisfies the relationship (180&#xb0;/N)&#x3c;&#x398;&#x3c;(540&#xb0;/N) in the notation of electrical angle.

Rotating electrical machine and elevator

According to one embodiment, a transverse flux machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a winding and a first ferromagnetic unit. The winding is wound along a rotational direction of a rotation axis. The first ferromagnetic unit has L (L is integer number) magnetic poles holding the winding. The rotor is rotatable relatively to the stator around the rotation axis. The rotor includes a second ferromagnetic unit having L magnetic poles facing the first ferromagnetic unit. If an order of harmonic component of torque ripple to be reduced is (N&#xd7;1), (N&#xd7;2), . . ., (N&#xd7;(M&#x2212;1)) (M and N are integer numbers. ML), among L magnetic poles in the first and second ferromagnetic units, a relative position of M magnetic poles along the rotational direction is shifted by &#x398;1 ((180&#xb0;/N/M)&#x398;1(540&#xb0;/N/M)) in order.

Transverse flux machine

According to an embodiment, an electric rotating machine includes a rotor element, an annular coil, a plurality of stator cores, and a plurality of wedge members. The rotor element is rotatable around a rotation axis. The coil is provided to be coaxial with the rotation axis. The plurality of stator cores are provided opposite to the rotor element and each includes a pair of magnetic pole parts opposing each other with the coil being interposed therebetween. Each of the plurality of wedge members is arranged between adjacent stator cores to apply preloads to the adjacent stator cores, the preloads containing components in a rotation direction of the rotor element and being opposite to each other.

Electric rotating machine

According to an embodiment, a rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a first coil, first magnetic poles and second magnetic poles. The stator includes a second coil, third magnetic poles and fourth magnetic poles. One of a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole opposite to the first magnetic pole is formed such that a leading end of the one of the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole lies opposite a central portion of an opposite surface of the stator. One of a third magnetic pole and a fourth magnetic pole opposite to the third magnetic pole is formed such that a leading end of the one of the third magnetic pole and the fourth magnetic pole lies opposite a central portion of an opposite surface of the rotor.

Rotating electrical motor using transverse magnetic flux

According to one embodiment, a rotary electric machine includes a rotor that is rotatable at a predetermined position and includes a plurality of first magnetic members arranged along an outer circumferential surface, the first magnetic members each including a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole. The rotary electric machine includes a first supporting member that surrounds a periphery of the rotor. The rotary electric machine includes a plurality of second supporting members that are fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the first supporting member. The rotary electric machine includes a plurality of second magnetic members that are fixed on side surfaces of the second supporting members and that have a third magnetic pole facing the first magnetic pole with an air gap and a fourth magnetic pole facing the second magnetic pole with an air gap.

Rotary electric machine, electric motor, machine, electric generator, and electric generating machine

A transverse flux machine includes a stator having a circular coil wound in a rotational direction and a rotor arranged to face the first ferromagnet across a gap. The stator has a plurality of first ferromagnets surrounding a part of the circular coil in the rotational direction separately. The rotor is rotatable about a center axis of the circular coil relative to the stator. The rotor has a plurality of second ferromagnets arranged in the rotational direction separately. A first member and a second member are inserted between adjacent ones of the second ferromagnets. The first member and the second member generate two magnetic fields opposite to each other in the circumference direction.

Transverse flux machine and vehicle

A transverse flux machine includes: a winding wound in a rotational direction; a stationary component in which first ferromagnets and second ferromagnets surrounding a part of the winding are arranged in the rotational direction; a rotor capable of rotating around a rotational axis; and a rotary component opposing the stationary component and attached to the rotor, wherein the rotary component having: third ferromagnets opposing the first ferromagnets; fourth ferromagnets opposing the second ferromagnets; and first magnetic field generating sections and second magnetic field generating sections intervened between the third ferromagnets and the fourth ferromagnets, wherein the first magnetic field generating sections and the second magnetic field generating sections generate magnetic fields from an opposing surface of the rotary component toward an opposing surface of the stationary component, and directions of the magnetic fields are opposite of one another.

According to one embodiment, a displacement detection device includes a light source, objective lens, beam splitter, aperture limiting element, and detection device. The beam splitter may separate reflected light into portions. The reflected light may be reflected by the medium and then transmitted through the objective lens. The aperture limiting element may include an aperture limited so as to block a portion of the reflected light. The detection device may detect displacement of the medium in a direction of the optical axis based on the reflected light having passed through the aperture limiting element.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yasuhito Ueda