Patent ID: 7291933

Claim:
An electrical system for a vehicle having a motor, the system comprising: (a) a housing including an adapter housing disposed between opposing front and rear housing sections; (b) a drive assembly including a shaft journalled in the front and rear housing sections and a pulley fixed radially about the shaft for being driven by the vehicle motor; (c) a pair of stators each including an output winding for providing a multi-phase AC voltage; (d) a pair of rotors each fixed radially about the shaft for rotation therewith to produce a magnetic field to induce the multi-phase AC voltage across the output windings of the stators; (e) two sets of slip rings, each ring encircling the shaft and electrically connected to one of the windings of one of the pair of rotors and insulated from the other slip rings and the shaft; (f) a pair of multi-phase full wave rectifiers, each electrically connected to one of the stators, for receiving the three-phase AC voltage produced across the winding of one of the stators and converting the AC voltage to DC voltage; (g) two sets of brushes, each set electrically connected to one of the slip rings to receive field current from a voltage regulator; and (h) a pair of voltage regulators for controlling DC voltage output.