Patent ID: 8188633

Claim:
An electromechanical machine having an axis of rotation, comprising two or more parallel central frames having two outermost sides and one or more pairs of first facing inner sides, wherein each pair of first facing inner sides comprises two oppositely first facing sides of two adjacent central frames; a plurality of first planar magnetic field layers, wherein each first planar magnetic field layer comprises a plurality of magnetic field components disposed in a planar surface, wherein each oppositely first facing side comprises a first planar magnetic field layer, wherein first planar magnetic layers of two oppositely first facing sides of two adjacent central frames form a planar rotor/stator pair; a plurality of first magnetic field components radially disposed on each of the two outermost sides of the central frame and concentrically along the axis of rotation, each first magnetic field component disposed in a concentric cylindrical formation with north-south poles oriented radially through the axis of rotation; two first side frames, each first side frame having one side facing an outermost side of the central frame; and a plurality of second magnetic field components radially disposed on the sides of the first side frames, concentrically along the axis of rotation, and interspersed with the first magnetic field components, each second magnetic field component disposed in a concentric cylindrical formation with north-south poles oriented radially through the axis of rotation, wherein a first and a second magnetic field components form a rotor/stator pair facing each other from different concentric circles.