Transverse flux machine
AssigneeVoith Turbo GmbH & Co. KG
InventorAndreas Lange
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Abstract
A transverse flux machine includes an outer stator having a plurality of soft iron outer stator elements and an outer ring winding; an inner stator having a plurality of soft iron inner stator elements and an inner ring winding; and a rotor having a plurality of soft iron rotor elements and a plurality of rotor magnets, the rotor elements positioned in alternating relationship with the rotor magnets when viewed with respect to a plane perpendicular to an axis of the transverse flux machine. Also with respect to this plane, the rotor magnets, the inner stator elements, and the outer stator elements each have a width. The width of the rotor magnets narrows in a direction toward the inner stator. Also, the width of the inner stator elements is smaller than the width of the of the outer stator elements.
Claims2
A transverse flux machine comprising:
- (a) an outer stator having a plurality of soft iron outer stator elements and an outer ring winding;
- (b) an inner stator having a plurality of soft iron inner stator elements and an inner ring winding;
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- (c) a rotor having a plurality of soft iron rotor elements and a plurality of rotor magnets, said rotor elements alternating with said rotor magnets when viewed with respect to a plane perpendicular to an axis of the transverse flux machine, said rotor magnets, said inner stator elements, and said outer stator elements each having a width when viewed with respect to said plane, the width of the rotor magnets narrowing step-wise in a direction toward the inner stator to an extent such that a flux density in a radial inner air gap and a flux density in a radial outer air gap are substantially equalized, the width of the inner stator elements being smaller than the width of the outer stator elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.