Patent ID: 7573175

Claim:
A tandem AC generator for a vehicle comprising: dual Lundel type field cores, each having a field winding wound thereon, fixed in series to a common rotary shaft; dual armature cores of a cylindrical shape having an armature winding wound thereon, placed in a diameter direction at an outside of the dual Lundel type field cores, respectively; front and rear housings of a non-magnetic substance placed in an axis direction at an outside of the dual armature cores, respectively, and forcedly pressing the dual armature cores in the direction of the common rotary shaft by a through bolt, and each housing having an end wall part and a circumference wall part and rotatably supporting the common rotary shaft, an inner circumference surface of the front housing having a step-shaped surface to which a front end surface of one armature core being engaged, and an inner circumference surface of the rear housing having a step-shaped surface to which a rear end surface of the other armature core being engaged; and a ring shaped cylindrical spacer placed between the dual armature cores, wherein: the front housing and the rear housing accommodate the duel armature cores, the circumference wall part of the front housing having a long-sized circumference wall that accommodates an entire outer circumference of the one armature core and accommodates a part of the outer circumference surface of the other armature core, and being separated in the axis direction at a predetermined interval from the circumference wall part of the rear housing accommodating another part of the outer circumference surface of the other armature core, the inner circumference surface of the front housing has a same diameter from the step-shaped surface of the front housing on a same side as a pulley to an end surface of the front housing at an opposite side to the pulley, the one armature core that is entirely accommodated in the front housing being fixed by both the cylindrical spacer and the step-shaped surface of the front housing, and the front housing having the long-sized circumference wall being structured such that the front housing sets the dual armature cores to have a same radial distance from the common rotary shaft, and the pulley is fixed to the rotary shaft to receive a torque.