Abstract:
A method of changing the speed of a three-phase induction motor by deriving from the A.C. supply a modulating wave of submultiple frequency, deriving therefrom a corresponding rectangular wave, modulating each phase of the supply by three such modulating waves, with the same sequence or opposite sequence to the supply phases. Modulation of the supply is effected by gating thyristors from the modulating waves. By varying the modulation frequency, the motor speed is varied stepwise over a speed range.
Abstract:
A 3-phase, alternating current, speed-changing electric motor or generator with speed-changing effected by pole-amplitude modification. The machine has a winding layout providing a first pole-number. The second pole-number requires the reversal in polarity of all poles in each negative half wave of a sinusoidal pole-amplitude modulation wave extending the 360* of the winding periphery. Pole-amplitudes, determined by coil-grouping, approximate to the sinusoidal amplitude of the modulation wave at the pole-locations. Pole-locations are substantially equally spaced-apart throughout, but coil-groups at the zero-amplitude positions of the modulation wave may be omitted (so-called ''''phantom'''' coil-groups). Integral coil-group values approximating closely to the sine wave amplitude values at the corresponding pole-locations, are used.
Abstract:
A three-phase motor with a stator winding wound on flat-sided punchings. The number of flat sides must not correspond to the pole-number. The stator slots are radial and those opposite flats on the stator punchings are shalower than those opposite the corners and in some examples are omitted. The three-phase winding used is derived from a regular double-layer, uniform-pitch, diamond coil winding by omitting blocks of coils from the top and bottom layers, the omitted coil blocks being equal in number to the flat sides, being equally spaced apart in the top and bottom layers and in coincident, overlapping or adjacent slots in the top and bottom layers.
Abstract:
A 3-phase, alternating current, speed-changing electric motor, or generator, suitable for 6-terminal, series/parallel switching and with pole-changing effected by pole-amplitude modulation, having a composite 3-phase stator winding comprising two component windings; the two component windings I. HAVING CORRESPONDING COMPONENT PHASE-WINDINGS CONNECTED IN THE SAME PHASE OF THE COMPOSITE WINDING, II. BEING COMPOSED OF IDENTICAL HALVES OF A POLE-AMPLITUDE MODULATION WINDING PROVIDING THE REQUIRED OPERATING POLENUMBERS AND III. PROVIDING EQUAL, PARALLEL CIRCUITS FOR ONE POLE-NUMBER.
Abstract:
The invention provides a three-phase self-cascaded machine with a single stator and rotor combination. Alternative forms of construction are described in that the stator may have two windings, one for each of two pole-numbers, or a single ''''polechanging'''' winding of the pole-amplitude modulation type. The rotor may be of wound type with short-circuit coils or of reluctance type with flux-barrier peripheral members or of hybrid type combining the reluctance and wound forms. All the rotor forms have similar electromagnetic characteristics in that when rotated in a magnetic field of the first stator pole-number, a field of the second stator pole-number is generated.
Abstract:
A three-phase, two-speed pole-changing induction motor, using the pole-changing method of pole-amplitude modulation, which has a single-layer stator winding, diamond or concentric coils being used as preferred. The stator coil layout is derived from the stator coil layout of a corresponding double-layer winding for the same alternative pole-numbers. The present invention provides a two-speed, three-phase alternating current electric motor having a single layer stator winding with alternative connections providing alternative polenumbers by a modified method of pole-amplitude modulation.