Abstract:
A synchronous motor having peripheral teeth on the rotor magnetized by a permanent magnet and radially inwardly projecting, electromagnetically energized stator teeth. The rotor teeth and stator teeth are skewed relative to each other. The annular arc length subtended by the skew as projected on the cylindrical peripheral envelope of the rotor teeth equals the arc length corresponding to the angular pitch of the rotor teeth divided by an integer between two and four. Each of the rotor teeth projects upon two adjacent stator teeth, and/or each of the stator teeth projects upon two adjacent rotor teeth.
Abstract:
Stator slots are skewed relative to rotor slots with a skew amount comprising an integer multiple of a stator electrical angle of 60.degree., thereby minimizing a torque ripple which is an integer multiple of six times of a primary frequency of electrical energy.
Abstract:
A rotor assembly for a permanent magnet motor includes a set of laminatings forming a rotor body, each lamination having a first magnet slot therein. A generally rectangular permanent magnet is disposed in the magnet slot, the magnet slot of each lamination being shaped so as to receive the rectangular permanent magnet through all the skewed laminations with a minimum air gap. A method of making an assembly such as a rotor includes the steps of providing an assembly body made of ferromagnetic material defining at least one magnet slot therein. The slot is at least partially filled with a mixture of magnetizable particles in a binder. The mixture is compressed and then cured to bond the magnetizable particles together in the slot and the bonded particles are then magnetized in the slot to form a magnet in situ in the slot without an air gap.
Abstract:
A motor driven air moving apparatus adapted to high speed, constant duty operation has a DC permanent magnet motor with a stator and rotor, one having a wound core with an even number of identically sized, evenly spaced teeth and the other having an even number of identically sized, permanent magnet poles. One of the rotor and stator has a skew at an angle from the axial, the maximum achievable skew being less than one tooth pitch due to short axial core width. A groove is provided along the midline of each of the teeth of the core which is parallel to and shallower than the tooth separating slots and contains no winding. The groove is effective to divide the tooth magnetically in half and thus decrease the effective tooth pitch, whereby, simultaneously, the magnetically induced pulsating angular velocity of the rotor and resultant audible noise are reduced and the system efficiency of the motor and air moving apparatus combination at high speeds in constant duty operation is increased.
Abstract:
A permanent-magnet field synchronous motor comprises a rotor body (22) having a cylindrical outer surface. A plurality of permanent magnets (25) attached to the cylindrical outer surface of the rotor body and arranged in the circumferential direction thereof form a field system. Each of the permanent magnets has an outer surface (25b) which extends circumferentially in parallel to the cylindrical outer surface of the rotor body and also has a constant thickness in the whole thereof. The inner surface and the outer surface of each of the permanent magnets has a certain configuration, respectively, each of which is composed of a plurality of straight lines and approximates to a contour line consisting of half-sine curves (S.sub.1, S.sub.2) extending between the circumferential opposite ends of each of the permanent magnets when developed in a plane surface.
Abstract:
Using a smooth laminated armature assembly, with a ferromagnetic double-helix stator shaft, provides an economical radial pole linear reluctance motor requiring no external armature bearings. The stator shaft has a double-helical screw tooth pattern cut into its surface. Spaces between screw threads are preferably filled with low permeability material. The armature assembly has radial pole laminar plates, separated by identically configured laminar spacers, separated by an insulating layer, which provides eddy current isolation, physical stability and original adjustment of laminations for overall accuracy to linear positioning, despite tolerances in the individual laminar plates. Each laminar plate has a number of inwardly projecting teeth centered about the internal channel. These internal teeth and the double helix screw teeth on the stator shaft provide flux paths through the stator. The armature assembly and the stator are complementary, and smoothed for sliding contact within the electromagnetically active envelope, without other bearings. Linear placement of radial pole laminar plates is achieved by dimensioning the radial pole laminar plates and/or the laminar spacers slightly less in thickness than nominal spacing requires, filling the space with epoxy, and pressing the end laminations together to nominal total length. Excess epoxy is squeezed out, leaving the laminations evenly spaced. Stator and armature may be assembled, or may be prepared with virtual teeth in homogeneous smooth surfaces. The virtual teeth are prepared by ferromagnetic modification of selected patterns through laser hardening or through chemical doping.
Abstract:
To reduce even instantaneous torque variations when pole gaps of a rotor pass stator pole gaps, the stator pole shoes, adjacent the tip, are shaped to provide an air gap (19) which, behind a projecting tip (FIG. 4: 61) first increases to an intermediate value (53) and then decreases to a minimum (50, 50B) over a zone (54) adjacent the pole gap (44A, 44B) which extends, preferably, over about 7.degree. to 20.degree.-el. Preferably, the opposite pole tip (51A) likewise has a projecting end (61A) with an air gap increasing to a maximum (52) and then decreasing essentially monotonically over the major portion of the pole shoe (41) to the minimum (50) close to the other pole tip (51), the maximum air gap (52) being offset about 10.degree.-20.degree.-el from the actual end of the pole tip (51A). Preferably, the pole gaps (17) on the permanent magnet rotor are narrow and skewed over an extent at least as wide as the stator pole gaps (44), for example between 20.degree. to 45.degree..
Abstract:
Fractional horsepower induction motors having a fixed number of poles (and, accordingly, a single no load synchronous speed) that are particularly adapted for multi-speed operation when driving a fan load by changing the field strength of the main winding. Induction motors of N fundamental poles have squirrel cage rotor having a plurality of interrelated conductor bars and end rings that are arranged so that multiple sets of the rotor bars establish a predetermined number of separately identifiable cage sets such that the fundamental pole structure of the stator field is coupled with the rotor and such that the third harmonic of the stator field is not coupled with the rotor. The rotor slot number and total number of separately identifiable cage sets are selected so that a cage set pattern is provided that has two-thirds of a fundamental pole pitch. In addition, the number of rotor cage end rings at one end times the number of rotor cage end rings at the other end is greater than or equal to the number of different cage types.
Abstract:
A method for making a stator for electric motors comprised of a plurality of laminations arranged with their sides in the direction of the rotor axis wherein the edge portions of the laminations running in the axial direction are bent upwardly towards the stator bore and maintained in spaced apart relation at a predetermined position and permanently fixed in that position solely by means of a moulding compound. Each lamination stack consists of undivided laminations comprising a north and a south pole wherein each main pole consists of the lamination edges of the two adjacent stacks. The method consists of the steps of positioning the laminations between a pair of inner and outer mould members wherein the inner mould member has means for supporting the terminal edges of the laminations in the predetermined spaced apart relation and disposed along the circumference of a circle and thereafter permanently fixing the terminal edges of the laminations in relation to one another by means of a moulding mass in the spaces between the laminations adjacent the terminal edge portions.
Abstract:
A stator for electric motors including a rotor and consisting of at least a pair of stacks each comprised of a plurality of laminations arranged with their sides in the direction of the rotor axis, the edge portions of the laminations running in the axial direction being bent inwardly towards the stator bore and maintained in spaced-apart relation at a position predetermined with regard to the magnetic flux lines and being permanently fixed in this position solely by means of a moulded compound, each lamination stack consisting of undivided laminations comprising a north and a south pole, each main pole consisting of the lamination edges of two adjacent lamination stacks.