949 results about "Reluctance motor" patented technology

In a motor, a stationary member is provided with a number M (M is a positive integer) of first poles within 360 electrical degrees at spaces therebetween. A plurality of windings are at least partly wound in the spaces, respectively. A movable member is movably arranged relative to the stationary member and provided with a number K (K is a positive integer) of second poles. The number K of second poles is different from the number M of first poles. A unidirectional current supply unit supplies a unidirectional current to at least one of the windings so as to create an attractive force between at least one of the first poles and a corresponding at least one of the second poles to thereby move the movable member relative to the stationary member.

In an electric motor, such as a DC brushless motor or the like, having a permanent magnet in a rotor, each magnetic pole is formed of three permanent magnets, and the permanent magnets are made of at least two kinds of magnetic materials represented by ferrite magnet and rare-earth magnet. Thus, in a permanent magnet rotor type electric motor, a reluctance torque and a magnetic flux density can be selectively established, and cost is reasonable, corresponding to the quality.

An axial flux switched reluctance motor utilizes one or more rotor discs spaced along a rotor shaft, each rotor disc having a plurality of rotor poles spaced along the periphery thereof. Stator elements are distributed circumferentially about the rotor discs and form pairs of radially extending stator poles for axially straddling the rotor discs. Stator coils as switched on to energize pairs of stator poles for forming an axial and radially inward flux path for rotating the rotor poles for minimizing the flux path before switching off the stator coil. Two or more rotor discs can be rotationally indexed for providing two or more motor phases. In manufacture, rotor discs and circumferentially extending stator coils about the periphery of each rotor disc are fit to a stator housing. Each stator element is then fit radially through the stator housing and secured thereto for straddling the rotor discs.

A variable reluctance motor and methods for control. The motor may include N motor phases, where N equals three or more. Each motor phase may include a coil to generate a magnetic flux, a stator and a rotor. A flux-carrying element for the rotor and/or stator may be made entirely of SMC. The stators and rotors of the N motor phases may be arranged relative to each other so that when the stator and rotor teeth of a selected phase are aligned, the stator and rotor teeth in each of the other motor phases are offset from each other, e.g., by an integer multiple of 1/N of a pitch of the stator or rotor teeth. A fill factor of the coil relative to the space in which it is housed may be at least 60%, and up to 90% or more. The stator and rotor flux-carrying elements together may include at most three separable parts.

The invention discloses a permanent magnet biased bearingless switched reluctance motor, which comprises stator back yokes, permanent magnets, stator suspension cores, stator torque cores, magnetic shields, suspension winding coils, torque winding coils, rotor cores and a shaft, wherein the stator suspension cores are wound with the suspension winding coils; the stator back yokes are arranged outside the stator suspension cores and connected with the stator suspension cores; the permanent magnets are arranged between the two stator back yokes; the magnetic shields and the stator torque cores are arranged in stator suspension core slots; the magnetic shields are positioned between the suspension stator windings and the stator torque cores; the rotor cores are arranged in the stator suspension cores and the stator torque cores; gas are reserved between the rotor cores and each of the stator suspension cores and the stator torque cores to form air gaps; and the shaft is arranged in the rotor cores. By the permanent magnet biased bearingless switched reluctance motor, decoupling control over torque and suspending power is realized to bring convenience to high-speed running; and a suspension biased magnetic flux is provided by the permanent magnets to reduce suspension power consumption and improve the efficiency of the motor.

A system and method for using reluctance torque or a combination of both reluctance and reaction torque components of an attached synchronous machine (102) to accelerate a prime mover (116), such as a gas turbine engine, within a desired start time. The system selects a mode of starting operation, and thereafter applies reluctance torque through a synchronous machine (102) armature winding (102A) excitation as a single, sufficient starting force in a first mode, or staged reluctance and reaction torque through the additional excitation of the synchronous machine (102) field winding (102B) excitation in a second mode, using existing power electronics and controls.

The invention discloses a composite excitation partitioned stator and rotor switched reluctance motor belonging to the field of switched reluctance motors. The motor can be in a three-phase 6/4, four-phase 8/6 or three-phase 12/8 structure and the like and comprises U-shaped stator blocks, excitation coils, magnet vanes, permanent magnets, segmental rotor tooth blocks and a non-magnetic conduction rotor metallic sheath, wherein the segmental rotor tooth blocks are embedded into the non-magnetic conduction rotor metallic sheath; one magnet vane is arranged between two adjacent U-shaped stator blocks; the permanent magnets are embedded between two stator tooth notches of each U-shaped stator block; the excitation coils are wound on the yokes of the U-shaped stator blocks; and the excitation field generated by each excitation coil wound on the yoke of each U-shaped stator block is in parallel connection with the permanent magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet embedded between two stator tooth notches of the U-shaped stator block. The motor of the invention has high torque, small wind resistance loss when the rotor operates at high speed, small end winding, strong fault tolerance and low production cost.

To form magnetic poles P on a rotor, a plurality of slits extending along a radial direction in a region close to the magnetic poles P and extending along a circumferential or chord direction in mid areas between the magnetic poles P are formed. The width b of circumferential slit segments extending along the circumferential or chord direction is narrower than the width a of radius slit segments extending along the radial direction. Permanent magnets are disposed in the narrowed segments of the slits to suppress leakage of magnetic flux. Thus, in a motor in which magnetic paths separated by the slits are formed on the rotor to provide regions having different magnetic reluctances in a circumferential direction of the rotor, a structure in which a through hole penetrated by an output shaft of the motor can have a large diameter is provided.

A switched reluctance motor has a rotor and a stator. The stator has first and second stator magnetic pole groups sequentially placed in an axial direction of the rotor. First and second stator magnetic poles in each group are alternately arranged on a same circumference. The first stator magnetic poles are placed every electrical angle 2π and reversely magnetized to each other. The second stator magnetic poles are placed every electrical angle 2π and reversely magnetized to each other. The first magnetic pole is apart from the second magnetic pole by electrical angle π. Each stator magnetic pole in the first stator magnetic pole group is apart from that in the second magnetic pole group by electrical angle π/2 in the circumferential direction.

A discrete rotor position estimation method for a synchronized reluctance motor is provided. A d.c.-link voltage V_dc and a phase current I_ph are sensed. A flux-linkage λ_ph of an active phase is calculated from the sensed d.c.-link voltage V_dc and the sensed phase current I_ph. The calculated flux-linkage λ_ph is compared with a reference flux-linkage λ_r. The reference flux-linkage λ_r corresponds to a reference angle θ_r which lies between angles corresponding to aligned rotor position and non-aligned rotor position in the synchronized reluctance motor. An estimated rotor position θ_cal is obtained only once when the calculated flux-linkage λ_ph is greater than the reference flux-linkage λ_r.

The present invention discloses a rotor for a line-start reluctance motor which improves core area efficiency to make flux flow in one direction. The rotor for the line-start reluctance motor includes a core having an axis coupling hole in a coupling direction of a shaft, a plurality of bars formed in the periphery of the core, and a plurality of flux barriers, one and the other ends of the flux barriers approaching the bars formed in first and second areas facing each other at a predetermined angle on a central line of a first axis on a core plane vertical to the coupling direction, at least parts of the centers of the flux barriers passing through a third or fourth area between the first and second areas, surrounding the axis coupling hole at predetermined intervals.

The present invention is a apparatus of multi-unit modular stackable switched reluctance motor system with parallely excited low reluctance circumferential magnetic flux loops for high torque density generation. For maximized benefits and advanced motor features, the present invention takes full combined advantages of both SRM architecture and “Axial Flux” architecture by applying “Axial Flux” architecture into SRM design without using any permanent magnet, by modularizing and stacking the “Axial Flux” SRM design for easy configuration and customization to satisfy various drive torque requirements and broad applications, and by incorporating an en energy recovery transformer for minimizing switching circuitry thus further lowering the cost and further increasing the reliability and robustness. Unlike prior arts, the present invention does not use any permanent magnet and this “Axial Flux” SRM system is modularized and stackable with many benefits.

The invention provides a bearingless switched reluctance motor and a control method thereof. The difference between a rotor pole arc angle and a stator pole arc angle of the motor is 15 degrees, current of torque windings and suspension windings are controlled to generate suspension force, the current of the torque windings is controlled so as to generate torque, and current of the torque winding of each phase and turn-on and turn-off angle of the torque winding are regulated to achieve a speed closed loop; radial displacement of a rotor is detection, and radial force needed for rotor suspension is outputted via PID (proportion integration differentiation) regulators, so that closed-loop control of radial displacement of the rotor is achieved. The suspension windings are only excited and conducted in a maximum-inductance flat-top area and do not generate torque, so that the torque and the suspension force can be decoupled in control, and current magnitude of the torque windings and the suspension windings is optimized to make copper loss of the windings to be minimum; in addition, counter potential of the suspension windings and the torque windings is zero in the maximum-inductance flat-top area, and high-speed suspended running of the bearingless switched reluctance motor is benefitted so as to give full play to high-speed adaptability of the switched reluctance motor.

The invention relates to a composite-structure bearingless switched reluctance motor and a control method thereof and belongs to the field of bearingless switched reluctance motors and control methods thereof. A torque stator and a levitation stator are axially stacked to form a stator; a winding is wound on teeth of the stator and passes the torque stator and the levitation stator, and the winding is wound in a central winding manner; a rotor comprises a torque rotor and a levitation rotor, the torque rotor and the levitation rotor are axially stacked in the stator, the torque rotor is located below the torque stator, the torque stator and the torque rotor are equal in axial length, and the levitation stator corresponds to the levitation rotor while the levitation stator and the levitation rotor are equal in axial length; the levitation stator is in a pole shoe structure, and the polar arc angle of the levitation stator is larger than that of the torque stator. Levitation and torque decoupled control is achieved; the control method is simple; radial bearing force is large; the motor is fine in levitating performance. Levitation control is achieved by minimum inductance zone; the levitating current has low effect on torque current, and interphase coupling effect is low.

The invention discloses bearing-free switch reluctance motor having an axial-direction parallel hybrid structure and a control method of said motor. A motor stator is composed of a reluctance motor stator and a magnetic bearing stator. A rotor is composed of a salient pole rotor and a cylinder rotor. The windings are composed of torque windings and suspension windings. The torque windings are composed of reluctance motor windings and wide-tooth windings and the number of the torque windings is identical to phase number m. The suspension windings are two and are arranged in the radial direction. The magnetic bearing stator is composed of four E-shaped structures and the width of each middle tooth is twice of the rest. According to the invention, suspension current is calculated according to a suspension force direction. Current of the torque windings and switching-on and switching-off angles of a power circuit are controlled separately and rotation speed and torque are controlled in real time. Current of the two suspension windings is controlled separately, suspension forces are regulated in real time and mutual decoupling is realized in rotation and suspension. According to the invention, the quantity of control variables is small; suspension control is simple; and a power converter of a suspension system is low in cost.

The invention discloses a 2-magnetic-pole controller-free self-starting permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor, and relates to the field of the synchronous reluctance motor. At current, the reluctance motor can be only in operation by being equipped with a special controller, and needs a large number of rare earth permanent magnet material, so that the cost is high. The 2-magnetic-pole controller-free self-starting permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor comprises a machine base, a front end cover, a back end cover, a front bearing, a front bearing inner cover,a back bearing, a back bearing inner cover, a line stator, a rotor iron core, a rotary shaft, a bottom foot, a fan blade and a fan cover; the rotor iron core is formed by multiple iron core stampingsheets with two magnetic poles in an overlaying manner; rotary shaft holes are formed in the centers of the iron core stamping sheets; the two magnetic poles both comprise radially arranged reluctancegrooves of the same number; a fan-shaped permanent magnet is arranged in the middle of each reluctance groove; and an aluminum cast mouse cage is arranged on the periphery, on the outer sides of thereluctance grooves of the iron core stamping sheets, of the rotor iron core. By virtue of a combination of a permanent magnet synchronous motor and the synchronous reluctance motor in the technical scheme, and by combination of the aluminum cast mouse cage, use of a permanent magnet material is reduced, and high operation also can be realized without a controller, so that the motor cost is obviously lowered.

A control apparatus of a synchronous reluctance motor includes a torque current correction unit (16) that generates a torque current command tracing a load torque so as to make the output torque of the motor coincide with the load torque. the control apparatus may further include a position and speed estimation unit (13) that estimates the position and speed based on three phase voltage equation to improve control performance in a voltage saturation state.

The invention discloses a mixed excitation short-magnetic-circuit variable-reluctance motor 1 as well as a stator structure and a rotor structure thereof. An inner circular face t of a base part 2 of the mixed excitation short-magnetic-circuit variable-reluctance motor is provided with modules 2-1 which protrude inwards in a preset interval angle; the stator part comprises a plurality of H-shaped stator sections 3 and first permanent magnets 4 (1) arranged at all the H-shaped stator sections p1, and the polarities of the permanent magnets of the stator sections are opposite; an exciting winding coil is embedded into two stator slots of each H-shaped stator section 3; and the rotor part comprises a rotor body 5 and a plurality of annular body rotor sections 8 arranged on the rotor body and/or second permanent magnets 4 (2), wherein the second permanent magnets are arranged on the s3 surfaces of the annular body rotor sections, and open grooves 8-1 and 8-2 are arranged on the lateral surfaces of the annular body rotor sections. According to the invention, the rotating force of the variable-reluctance motor can be increased, the energy density is improved, the torque ripple and the vibration and noise level are reduced, the performance is stable, and the size is smaller under the requirement of same output torque.

A 12/14 bearingless permanent magnet biased switched reluctance motor is formed by a stator back yoke, permanent magnets, stator suspension force iron cores, magnetism isolation sleeves, stator torque iron cores, a rotor iron core, suspension force winding coils, torque winding coils and a shaft. The inner side of the stator back yoke is provided with the stator suspension force iron cores; the permanent magnets are embedded between the stator back yoke and the stator suspension force iron cores; the magnetism isolation sleeves are arranged between the stator suspension force iron cores and the stator torque iron cores; the stator suspension force iron cores and the stator torque iron cores are wound with the suspension force winding coils and the torque winding coils respectively; and the stator suspension force iron cores and the stator torque iron cores are internally provided with the rotor iron core, and the rotor iron core is internally provided with the shaft. The permanent magnets provide a bias magnetic field, so that motor loss is reduced and axial length is reduced; meanwhile, through the adjustment of the positions of stator torque iron core teeth, electromagnetic torque of the motor is increased, and torque pulsation is reduced; and the defects of an original 12/14 bearingless switched reluctance motor are totally overcome from two aspects, and the efficiency of the motor is improved.

A bridge (8) in conformity with a tooth opening angle of the stator (1) is provided between a permanent magnet (5) and a permanent magnet (5) in a rotor (4), so that a magnetic flux for a reluctance torque is made to pass an inner side of the permanent magnet (5). An opening angle of each of ribs (7) on both sides of the permanent magnet (5) is set to be equal to or smaller than the teeth interval opening angle and equal to or larger than a half thereof. Thereby, reluctance of the rib (7) against a magnetic flux in a circumferential direction is increased and leakage of the magnetic flux of the permanent magnet (5) is prevented.

The invention discloses a switched reluctance motor system based on bus current sampling. The switched reluctance motor system comprises a switched reluctance motor, a power converter, a rotating speed detecting device, current sensors and a controller. The phase current of the SRM system is analyzed, the influence on the phase current waveform by different open sections is discussed, and the phase current overlapping and non-overlapping conditions in a current chopping section are analyzed. According to the phase current overlapping condition, high-frequency impulses are injected into all under-phase tubes in an overlapping section, A/D sampling is triggered at the pulse low level to discompose the direct-current bus current, the injection high-frequency impulse frequency and the A/D sampling frequency are highly synchronous, information of all the open sections is combined, phase currents in all the phase conducting sections can be effectively rebuilt, the use quantity of the sensors is reduced, the system cost and size are greatly reduced, the switched reluctance motor system is more compact, and the problem that as gains of the single current sensors of all the phases are unequal, voltage drop is unbalanced is solved.

The invention provides a permanent magnet auxiliary synchronized reluctance motor rotor, a motor thereof and an installation method of the motor. The permanent magnet auxiliary synchronized reluctance motor rotor comprises a rotor iron core and a plurality of permanent magnet groups, a plurality of permanent magnet groove groups are uniformly distributed on the rotor iron core with rotor axis serving as a circle centre in a peripheral direction, each permanent magnet groove group comprises a single layer or multilayer of permanent magnet grooves, the number of the permanent magnet groups is identical to that of the permanent magnet groove groups, each permanent magnet group comprises a single layer or multilayer of permanent magnets which are respectively embedded into the permanent magnet grooves of the corresponding permanent magnet groove groups, the permanent magnets in each permanent magnet group have the same polarity, the polarities of the two adjacent permanent magnet groups are opposite, the end portion of at least one layer of permanent magnet groove in the plurality of permanent magnet groove groups is a sharpened end provided with a cutting face, and width T of the sharpened end cutting face of a permanent magnet groove with the sharpened end and middle width W meet the following relation. By means of the motor rotor, the motor thereof and the installation method of the motor, the whole demagnetization resistant capacity and operation reliability of the motor are improved.