Transverse flux motor as an external rotor motor and drive method

A drive method based on the transverse flux principle, with magnetically active webs of at least one rotor which is in the form of a disk or is annular being caused to rotate about the rotor, which webs are arranged in the form of a ring in the radial alignment on at least one end surface of the rotor, which interact with magnetically active elements which are provided in the form of a ring on at least one stator and have a U-shaped internal profile,

• characterized in that
• the magnetically active elements on the stator are at least three rings or ring segments through which current flows differently, with the vertical profile sides of the U-shaped internal profile of the ring segments being aligned parallel to the axial alignment of the stator, and with free ends of the vertical profile sides of the U-shaped internal profile having poles which are separated from one another, and with the rotor being moved around a pole in the rotation direction in relation to the stator when any current flows through.