Patent ID: 7800275
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: H02K

Abstract:
1. A device for generating electrical or mechanical output, comprising: a rotor coil; a rotor assembly rotational about an axis, the rotor assembly at least partially surrounding the rotor coil and having first and second sets of rotator extensions, each rotator extension having a rotor extension surface; a stator assembly fluxably engageable with the rotor assembly, the stator assembly having two sets of stator flux conductor extensions, each stator flux conductor extension having a stator conductor surface; and a stator coil, the stator coil being at least partially surrounded by the stator assembly; wherein each stator flux conductor extension has a rotator end and an interior end, the rotator end having the stator conductor surface and the interior ends of the first set of stator flux conductor extensions abutting the interior ends of the second stator flux conductor extensions at an abutting junction; wherein rotating the rotor assembly about the axis alternates the rotor assembly between a first and a second position; wherein, in the first position, each of the rotor extension surfaces of the first set of rotator extensions faces the stator conductor surface of one of the first set of stator flux conductor extensions and each of the rotor extension surfaces of the second set of rotator extensions faces the stator conductor surface of one of the second set of stator flux conductor extensions, causing magnetic flux to be conducted across the abutting junction in a first direction; and wherein, in the second position, each of the rotor extension surfaces of the first set of rotor extensions faces the stator conductor surface of one of the second set of stator flux conductor extensions and each of the rotor extension surfaces of the second set of rotor extensions faces the stator conductor surface of one of the first set of stator flux conductor extensions, causing magnetic flux to be conducted across the abutting junction in a second direction that is substantially anti-parallel with the first direction.