Multi-phase generator

Claim 1

A multi-phase induction generator including in combination, a rotor having a plurality of equally spaced poles but no windings thereon, a stator having a different number of equally spaced poles each provided with a single centrally disposed slot, said rotor and stator being mounted concentrically for relative rotation and with an air gap therebetween, a direct current energizable exciting winding mounted on said stator and encompassing each said stator pole for producing magnetic flux of the opposite sense in adjacent stator poles, and a multi-phase alternating current output winding mounted on said stator with the phase windings located respectively in the centrally disposed slots of adjacent stator poles thereby to achieve a mutual displacement of half a pole pitch between said exciting winding and said multi-phase output winding, said multi-phase output winding producing a multi-phase output voltage between beginning and end terminals of each stator phase winding, the number of stator poles being equal to m . p, the number of rotor poles being equal to m(p ± 1), m being an integer factor 1, 2, 3...., and p being an even integer 2, 4, 6 ... .