Variable speed AC dynamo electric machine
OwnerDonald L. Horeinventor
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Abstract
A single phase or multiphase dynamo electric machine including a stator member having at least one winding arranged to be energized to provide an alternating flux, and a further member, e.g. a rotor, movable with respect to the stator and having at least one short circuited winding providing at each position of the movable member alternative paths of low and high reluctance to the passage of alternating magnetic flux, sensing means for sensing the relative position of the two members, switching means actuated by the sensing means to cause the movable member to lock in position relative to the stator at a null position and to effect successive energization of the stator winding at other than the null position to effect continuous movement of the movable member past the stator.
Claims8
A single or multi-phase dynamo electric machine comprising:
- a stator having at least one winding wound thereon, arranged to be energized from an alternating current source to provide changing magnetic flux;
- a movable member movable with respect to said stator comprising at least one short circuited winding providing at each position of said movable member alternative paths of low and high reluctance to the passage of the changing magnetic flux, to cause said movable member to adopt a position in which linkage of said at least one short circuited winding of said movable member with the energized stator winding is minimized;
- means for sensing the relative position of said stator and said movable member;
- and,
- switching means arranged to be actuated by said sensing means and which, with said sensing means at a null position, causes said movable member to lock in position relative to said stator and which, with said sensing means displaced from the null position, causes self-sustained successive energization of said stator windings and consequent continuous movement of said movable member past said stator.
A dynamo electric machine operable from an alternating current source comprising:
- a stator having at least one winding energizable from the alternating current source to provide alternating flux which varies in magnitude;
- a ferromagnetic rotor, movable with respect to the stator, having at least one short circuited winding providing alternative paths of low and high reluctance to the passage of the alternating magnetic flux;
- sensing means for sensing the position of said rotor with respect to said stator and having a null position;
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- switching means disposed to be actuated by said sensing means for causing said rotor to lock in position relative to said stator when said sensing means is at the null position and for causing self-sustained successive energization of said stator windings and consequent continuous movement of said rotor past said stator when said sensing means is displaced from the null position.
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