Patent ID: 6876113
Filing Date: 2005-04-05
Classification: F02B,F02C,H02K,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An alternator comprising a housing accommodating a plurality of rotors, a common stator and, in use, a drive shaft for the rotors, said alternator has no moveable bearings within the housing supporting the drive shaft for the rotors and wherein the plurality of rotors within the alternator housing being mounted, in use, on the drive shaft and rotating within the common stator, wherein the alternator is without an integral drive shaft for the rotors, the alternator having a passageway therethrough, including through the rotor, to mount onto an existing drive shaft, being mounted on the existing drive shaft, in use, and with the drive shaft extending through the full width of the rotors, whereby the rotors may be positioned at any of a number of chosen locations along the length of the drive shaft.