Rotor flux time delay reduction through permanent magnets for electrically excited synchronous machines

Abstract

An electric machine, comprising a power supply and an electrically excited synchronous machine is provided. The electrically excited synchronous machine comprises a stator with stator windings, a rotor, comprising rotor poles with field windings and a plurality of permanent magnets magnetically connected to the rotor pole. A power converter is coupled between the power supply and the electrically excited synchronous machine, the power converter is arranged to provide a pulsed operation by providing a pulsed AC current to the stator windings and a pulsed DC current to the rotor field windings, wherein the pulsed DC current to the rotor field windings causes the rotor poles to have a magnetic orientation that has a same magnetic orientation as the permanent magnets magnetically connected to the rotor poles.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.