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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1988
Bobby D McKee, San Jose, CA (US);
Alvin H Nakagawa, Campbell, CA (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A material which exhibits different electrical resistivity in mutually perpendicular directions is formed by providing a base member of one metal and covering a surface of the base member with a second metal of a different composition. Thereafter, multiple passes are made with a high energy beam over the surface of the second metal to form a plurality of alloyed zones in the base metal with the resistivity of the alloyed zones being different than that of the adjacent base metal. A rotor for a dynamoelectric machine fabricated by such methods imparts a preferred direction to current flow to thereby eliminate large undesirable eddy currents and by tailoring the pattern of the higher resistivity zones, a machine may be provided which produces a self-compensating flux to minimize undesirable flux leakage common in such machines.