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US 4,063,135 AGranted
Electric motor having controlled magnetic flux density
AssigneeCravens Research Company
InventorCravens L. Wanlass
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Abstract
A motor is disclosed in which the stator winding of, for example, a squirrel cage induction motor, is connected in series with a capacitor so that the capacitor, together with the input voltage, causes the stator core to periodically switch from a nonsaturated to a saturated condition and vice-versa so that the flux density is maintained at a uniform high level. A second stator winding may be provided in parallel with the first stator winding and capacitor which second winding serves to provide increased starting torque and improve the overall operating characteristics of the motor. Also disclosed is an embodiment in which an inverter is employed to permit the motor to be operated from a DC source.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding encompassing the magnetic material;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage including an inverter;
- a capacitor;
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- means connecting the main stator winding and the capacitor in a series circuit across said input, said capacitor having a capacitance large enough to maintain a non-inductive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode, and being capable of storing a voltage sufficient, together with a voltage applied to said input, to cause said magnetic material to periodically change from a non-saturated to a saturated condition.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding of relatively low inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an auxiliary stator winding of relatively higher inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- a capacitor;
- means connecting the capacitor and the main stator winding in a series circuit across the input, said capacitor having a capacitance large enough to maintain a capacitive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode, and being capable of storing a voltage sufficient, together with a voltage applied to said input, to cause said magnetic material to periodically change from a non-saturated to a saturated condition;
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- means connecting the auxiliary winding in parallel with said series circuit.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding of relatively low inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an auxiliary stator winding of relatively higher inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source AC voltage;
- a capacitor;
- means connecting the capacitor and the main stator winding in a series circuit across the input, said capacitor having a capacitance large enough to maintain a capacitive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode, and being capable of storing a voltage sufficient, together with a voltage applied to said input, to cause said magnetic material to periodically change from a non-saturated to a saturated condition;
- means connecting the auxiliary winding in parallel with said series circuit;
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- speed responsive means for disconnecting said auxiliary winding when said rotor attains a preselected speed.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding of relatively low inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an auxiliary stator winding of relatively higher inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- a capacitor;
- means connecting the capacitor and the main stator winding in a series circuit across the input, said capacitor having a capacitance large enough to maintain a capacitive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode, and being capable of storing a voltage sufficient, together with a voltage applied to said input, to cause said magnetic material to periodically change from a non-saturated to a saturated condition;
- means connecting the auxiliary winding in parallel with said series circuit;
- further capacitive means and switching means operable to connect or disconnect said further capacitive means in parallel with said capacitor.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding of relatively low inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an auxiliary stator winding of relatively higher inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- a capacitor;
- means connecting the capacitor and the main stator winding in a series circuit across the input, said capacitor having a capacitance large enough to maintain a capacitive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode, and being capable of storing a voltage sufficient, together with a voltage applied to said input, to cause said magnetic material to periodically change from a non-saturated to a saturated condition;
- further capacitive means;
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- switching means operable in response to rotor speed to connect or disconnect said further capacitive means in parallel with said capacitor.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding of relatively low inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an auxiliary stator winding of relatively higher inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- a capacitor;
- means connecting the capacitor and the main stator winding in a series circuit across the input, said capacitor having a capacitance large enough to maintain a capacitive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode, and being capable of storing a voltage sufficient, together with a voltage applied to said input, to cause said magnetic material to periodically change from a non-saturated to a saturated condition;
- means connecting the auxiliary winding in parallel with said series circuit;
- further capacitive means;
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- switching means operable in response to the RMS value of the input voltage to connect or disconnect said further capacitive means in parallel with said capacitor.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding of relatively low inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an auxiliary stator winding of relatively higher inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- input circuit means including an inverter;
- a capacitor;
- means connecting the capacitor and the main stator winding in a series circuit across the input circuit means, said capacitor having a capacitance large enough to maintain a capacitive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode, and being capable of storing a voltage sufficient, together with a voltage applied to said input, to cause said magnetic material to periodically change from a non-saturated to a saturated condition;
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- means connecting the auxiliary winding in parallel with said series circuit.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding of relatively low inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- an auxiliary stator winding of relatively higher inductance encompassing the magnetic material;
- input circuit means including an inverter;
- a capacitor;
- means connecting the capacitor and the main stator winding in a series circuit across the input circuit means, said capacitor having a capacitance large enough to maintain a capacitive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode, and being capable of storing a voltage sufficient, together with a voltage applied to said input, to cause said magnetic material to periodically change from a non-saturated to a saturated condition;
- said inverter including switching means which are triggered on by an external source of signals and turned off by operation of said capacitor and main stator winding;
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- means connecting the auxiliary winding in parallel with said series circuit.
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An electrical circuit for energizing an alternating current electric motor having a stator including a magnetic core, a stator winding wound on the core of said stator, and a rotor, comprising:
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- means capacitor;
- means connecting said capacitor means and said stator winding in series across said input;
- said capacitor means being capable of being charged to a voltage sufficient, when added to said AC voltage, to develop a volt-second value across said stator core greater than the volt-second capacity of said core so that said core will be driven into saturation in opposite directions on each half-cycle of said AC voltage;
- a second winding wound on said stator core;
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- means for connecting said second winding in parallel with the series connected stator winding and capacitor means.
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An electrical circuit for energizing an alternating current electric motor having a stator including a magnetic core, a stator winding wound on the core of said stator, and a rotor, comprising:
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- means capacitor;
- means connecting said capacitor means and said stator winding in series across said input;
- said capacitor means being capable of being charged to a voltage sufficient, when added to said AC voltage, to develop a volt-second value across said stator core greater than the volt-second capacity of said core so that said core will be driven into saturation in opposite directions on each half-cycle of said AC voltage;
- a second winding wound on said stator core, said second winding having a higher inductance than said first winding;
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- means for connecting said second winding in parallel with the series connected means stator winding and capacitor.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator core including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding encompassing the magnetic material;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- means capacitor;
- means connecting the main stator winding and the capacitor means in a series circuit across said input;
- said capacitor means being large enough to maintain a capacitive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode and being capable of being charged to a voltage sufficient, when added to said AC voltage, to develop a volt-second value across said stator core greater than the volt-second capacity of said core so that said core will be driven into saturation in opposite directions on each half-cycle of said AC voltage.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator core including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding encompassing the magnetic material;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- means capacitor;
- means connecting the main stator winding and the capacitor means in a series circuit across said input;
- the capacitance of said capacitor means being large enough to maintain a capacitive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode and being capable of being charged to a voltage sufficient, when added to said AC voltage, to develop a volt-second value across said stator core greater than the volt-second capacity of said core so that said core will be driven into saturation in opposite directions on each half-cycle of said AC voltage;
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- an auxiliary stator winding encompassing the magnetic material, said auxiliary stator winding being connected in parallel with the series connected main stator winding and capacitor means.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding encompassing the magnetic material;
- an auxiliary stator winding encompassing the magnetic material;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- a capacitor;
- means connecting the capacitor and the main stator winding in a series circuit across the input, said capacitor having a capacitance large enough to maintain a non-inductive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode, and being capable of storing a voltage sufficient, together with a voltage applied to said input, to cause said magnetic material to periodically change from a non-saturated to a saturated condition;
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- means adapted to connect the auxiliary winding in parallel with said series circuit.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator core including magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a main stator winding encompassing the magnetic material;
- an auxiliary stator winding encompassing the magnetic material;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- a capacitor;
- means connecting the capacitor and the main stator winding in a series circuit across the input, said capacitor having a capacitance large enough to maintain a non-inductive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode and being capable of being charged to a voltage sufficient, when added to said AC voltage, to develop a volt-second value across said stator core greater than the volt-second capacity of said core so that said core will be driven into saturation in opposite directions on each half-cycle of said AC voltage;
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- means adapted to connect the auxiliary winding to a source of AC voltage.
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An electrical circuit for energizing an alternating current electric motor having a stator including a magnetic core, a stator winding wound on the core of said stator, and a rotor, comprising:
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- capacitor means;
- means connecting said capacitor means and said stator winding in series across said input;
- said capacitor being capable of being charged to a voltage sufficient, when added to said AC voltage, to develop a volt-second value across said stator core greater than the volt-second capacity of said core so that said core will be driven into saturation in opposite directions on each half-cycle of said AC voltage.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator comprising a core including magnetic material and main and auxiliary stator windings would on said core and encompassing said magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a capacitor;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- means connecting the capacitor and the main stator winding in series across said input and said auxiliary winding in parallel with said series circuit;
- said capacitor being capable of being charged to a voltage sufficient, when added to an AC voltage applied to said input, to develop a volt-second value across said magnetic material greater than the volt-second capacity of said magnetic material so that said magnetic material will be driven into saturation in opposite directions on each half-cycle of said AC voltage;
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- said stator windings being arranged and dimensioned such that, upon application of an AC voltage to said input, energy is primarily transferred to said rotor through said auxiliary winding until the back e.m.f. of said motor increases to a point where the volt-second capacity of said magnetic material is sufficiently large to permit primary energy transfer to said rotor through said main winding.
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An electric motor comprising:
- a stator comprising a core including magnetic material and main and auxiliary stator windings wound on said core and encompassing said magnetic material;
- a rotor;
- a capacitor;
- an input adapted to be connected to a source of AC voltage;
- means connecting the capacitor and the main stator winding in series across said input and said auxiliary winding in parallel with said series circuit;
- said capacitor having a capacitance large enough to maintain a capacitive power factor in said series circuit in the operating mode and being capable of being charged to a voltage sufficient, when added to said AC voltage, to develop a volt-second value across said magnetic material greater than the volt-second capacity of said magnetic material so that the said magnetic material will be driven into saturation in opposite directions on each half-cycle of said AC voltage;
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- said auxiliary winding having a higher inductance than said main winding so that, upon application of an AC voltage to said input, energy is primarily transferred to said rotor through said auxiliary winding until the back e.m.f. of said motor increases to a point where the volt-second capacity of said magnetic material is sufficiently large to permit primary energy transfer to said rotor through said main winding.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.