Patent ID: 6864614

Claim:
An electric generator, comprising: a housing; a rotor assembly centrally disposed within said housing, the rotor assembly comprising an axially disposed annular rotor body having a circumference and a diameter, and a shaft rotationally coupled to a source of rotational energy, the rotor assembly further comprising an even plurality of magnets uniformly distributed about the circumference, each magnet having a north pole and a south pole along the diameter such that adjacent magnets about the circumference have outward facing poles of alternating polarity; and a plurality of stators, arranged in an even plurality of rows, each row secured within said housing at a static location with respect to and in close proximity to said rotor, the rows spaced equidistantly within said housing and radially about said rotor assembly, wherein each of said stators comprises: a proximate end adjacent to said housing and a distal end adjacent to said rotor assembly; a centrally disposed nonconductive plate having two substantially rectangular planar surfaces; at least one substantially rectangular ferromagnetic plate, disposed parallel to each said planar surface of said centrally disposed nonconductive plate; and a plurality of concentrically arranged layers of insulation, primary windings, and ferromagnetic material circumferentially surrounding underlying layers, the plurality of layers arranged in a predetermined repeating pattern.