Patent ID: 11894738
Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  F | IPC F  H

Claim 13:
14. A method, comprising:
operating an electric machine to convert electrical power to rotational power or to convert rotational power to electrical power, the electric machine having a stator assembly and a rotor assembly rotatable with a rotating component of a turbomachine, the stator assembly having a stator split into stator segments, wherein the conversion of electrical power is achieved using a plurality of power converters, each of the plurality of power converters being electrically coupled to a respective stator segment of the stator segments;
receiving data from one or more sensors associated with the electric machine;
identifying a fault with the electric machine based on the data; and
operate the actuators to move their respective stator segments away from the rotor assembly from their respective first positions to their respective second positions in response to identifying the fault condition withing the electric machine;
moving each one of the stator segments away from the rotor assembly along a radial direction defined by the turbomachine in response to identifying the fault condition within the electric machine.