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US 5,825,113 AGranted
Doubly salient permanent magnet machine with field weakening (or boosting) capability
AssigneeElectric Power Research Institute, Inc.
InventorsThomas A. Lipo, Yue Li
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Abstract
A permanent magnet machine combines both principles of variable reluctance machines and permanent magnets, and comprises a rotor with salient rotor poles and a stator with salient stator poles. A pair of ferrite arched permanent magnets are embedded in the stator yoke beneath respective stator poles and are arranged symmetrically around the central axis of the machine. A field winding for boosting or weakening the primary flux generated by the permanent magnets is wound in a special arrangement.
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A permanent magnet machine comprising:
- a rotor mounted for rotation about a central axis and comprising:
- a plurality of salient rotor poles being spaced at equal angular intervals around said central axis and extending radially outward therefrom;
- a stator comprising:
- a stator yoke, the stator yoke being of a round shape in its cross-section and having first and second similar sections, arranged symmetrically around the central axis,
- a first and a second plurality of salient stator poles being spaced at equal angular intervals around the central axis and extending radially inward from the stator yoke, said first section having said first plurality of stator poles, and said second section having said second plurality of stator poles, and
- first and second arched permanent magnets embedded in the stator yoke, the first permanent magnet being interposed between the first section of the stator yoke and said first plurality of the stator poles, and the second permanent magnet being interposed between the second section of the stator yoke and said second plurality of the stator poles, said first and second permanent magnets forming a primary flux path through said stator yoke between said first and second sections;
- a plurality of armature windings, each being individually coiled about a stator pole of said first plurality of stator poles and a diametrically opposite stator pole of said second plurality of stator poles, and
- a field winding excited by a constant or slowly varying current permanently coupled with said primary flux path and interposed between said first and second sections and wound along a length of the stator yoke.
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A permanent magnet machine comprising:
- a rotor mounted for rotation about a central axis and comprising:
- four salient rotor poles being spaced at equal angular intervals around said central axis and extending radially outward therefrom;
- a stator comprising:
- a stator yoke, the stator yoke being of a round shape in its cross-section and having first and second similar sections, arranged symmetrically around the central axis,
- six salient stator poles being spaced at equal angular intervals around the central axis and extending radially inwardly of the stator yoke, said first section having first three stator poles, and said second section having another three stator poles, and
- first and second ferrite arched permanent magnets embedded in the stator yoke and polarized transversely in a radial magnetization direction to said central axis to serve as a source of primary flux for magnetizing the machine,
- the first permanent magnet being interposed between the first section of the stator yoke and said first three stator poles, and the second permanent magnet being interposed between the second section of the stator yoke and said another three stator poles, the first and second permanent magnets extending the length of the stator yoke and in their cross-sections being of a round shape;
- three-phase armature windings, each being individually coiled about a stator pole of said first three stator poles and a diametrically opposite stator pole of said another three stator poles;
- a field winding interposed between said first and second sections and wound along the length of the stator yoke;
- wherein, when said field winding is excited, it produces magnetizing or demagnetizing ampere turns to boost or to weaken the primary flux produced by the first and the second permanent magnets;
- and wherein, when said field winding is not activated, it detects the rotor position, each of said three armature windings being connected to a separate phase of a three-phase source of alternating current;
- converter means connected to said armature windings and converting a three-phase alternating current power to unregulated direct current;
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- means for energizing the field winding with slowly varying current.
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A permanent magnet single-phase generator comprising:
- a rotor mounted for rotation about a central axis and comprising:
- six salient rotor poles being spaced at equal angular intervals around said central axis and extending radially outward therefrom;
- a stator comprising:
- a stator yoke, the stator yoke being of a round shape in its cross-section and having first and second similar sections, arranged symmetrically around the central axis,
- four salient stator poles being spaced at equal angular intervals around the central axis and extending radially inward from the stator yoke, said first section having first two stator poles, and said second section having another two stator poles, and
- first and second ferrite arched permanent magnets embedded in the stator yoke and polarized transversely in a radial magnetization direction to said central axis to serve as a source of primary flux for magnetizing the machine,
- the first permanent magnet being interposed between the first section of the stator yoke and said first two stator poles, and the second permanent magnet being interposed between the second section of the stator yoke and said another two stator poles, the first and second permanent magnets extending the length of the stator yoke and in their cross-sections being of a round shape;
- first and second armature windings, each of said first and second armature windings including first and second coils connected in series therebetween, each of said first and second coils being individually wound about one of a diametrically opposite stator pole, the second coil of the first armature winding being connected to the first coil of the second armature winding;
- a field winding interposed between said first and second sections and wound along the length of the stator yoke;
- wherein, when said field winding is excited, it produces magnetizing or demagnetizing ampere turns to boost or to weaken the primary flux produced by the first and the second permanent magnets;
- means for energizing the field winding with slowly varying current;
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- a converter means connected to the first coil of the first armature winding and to the second coil of the second armature winding,
- said converter means converting an alternating current obtained from the first and second armature windings into single-phase direct current.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.