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US 4,405,873 AGranted
Rotor for a line-start permanent-magnet motor
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorThomas A. Nondahl
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Abstract
A rotor for a permanent magnet motor of the interior or embedded magnet type employs permanent magnet material in slots of two different widths in the rotor to bring the motor up to synchronous speed through hysteresis loss. During rotor rotation, the permanent magnet material in the thinner slots is driven completely about its hysteresis loop while the material in the wider slots experiences no polarity reversals.
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A rotor for a self-starting permanent magnet motor comprising:
- a shaft;
- a cylindrical steel matrix having an aperture extending through the cylinder along its axis for mounting on said shaft, said matrix having a plurality of slots of a first width extending axially through said matrix and radially spaced about the axis of said matrix, said matrix having a slot of a second width between each pair of circumferentially-successive slots of said first width, said slots of a second width extending axially through said matrix;
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- permanent magnet material positioned in said slots, said material in said slots of a first width polarized so that circumferentially-successive faces of said material in said slots of a first width have like polarity, said magnet material in said slots of a second width being sufficiently narrow to be driven completely about its hysterisis loop when said rotor is subjected to a rotating magnetic field in said motor and said rotor is rotating at below synchronous speed, said magnetic material in said slots of a first width being sufficiently wide to retain its polarity when said rotor is subjected to a rotating magnetic field in said motor.
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A rotor for a self-starting permanent magnet motor comprising:
- a shaft;
- a cylindrical steel matrix having an aperture extending through the cylinder along its axis for mounting on said shaft, said matrix having a plurality of wide slots extending axially through said matrix and radially spaced about the axis of said matrix, said matrix further having a narrow slot between each circumferentially-successive pair of said wide slots, said narrow slots extending axially through said matrix;
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- permanent magnet material positioned in said wide and narrow slots, said material in said wide slots polarized so that circumferentially-successive faces of said material in said wide slots have like polarity, said magnet material in said narrow slots being sufficiently narrow to be driven completely about its hysteresis loop when said rotor is subjected to a rotating magnetic field in said motor and said rotor is rotating at below synchronous speed, said magnetic material in said wide slots being of sufficient width to retain its polarity when said rotor is subjected to a rotating magnetic field in said motor.
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