Modular component electric machine
OwnerChristopher Mooreinventor
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Abstract
The invention comprises a modular electric machine comprising a modular stator having a plurality of stator teeth and windings and a modular rotor comprising a plurality of modular magnetic elements for electromagnetic interaction with stator teeth. The invention further comprises a method of control of a modular electric machine.
Claims17
A modular electric machine comprising:
- an annular rotor having a plurality of modular spaced magnetic assemblies disposed around an inner circumference thereof, each of said magnetic assemblies including a pole element and at least one bias magnet proximate said pole element;
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- a stator comprising a central hub and a plurality of modular stator teeth extending radially outwardly, said teeth disposed radially inwardly of said spaced magnetic assemblies, said stator positioned within said rotor such that said pole elements and said stator teeth periodically align as said rotor rotates.
A modular electric machine comprising:
- a modular stator having a plurality of radially extending laminated conductive teeth each provided with an electrically conductive winding to form a plurality of electromagnets;
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- a modular rotor having a plurality of magnetic assemblies spaced along an inner circumferential surface thereof, each of said magnetic assemblies including a pole element and at least one bias magnet proximate said pole element wherein said stator is disposed within said rotor for electromagnetically interacting with said stator teeth.
A modular electric machine comprising:
- an annular rotor having a plurality of modular spaced magnetic assemblies disposed around an outer circumference thereof, each of said magnetic assemblies including a pole element and at least one bias magnet proximate said pole element;
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- a stator comprising a central hub and a plurality of modular stator teeth extending radially inwardly, said teeth disposed radially outwardly of said spaced magnetic assemblies of said rotor, said rotor positioned within said stator such that said pole elements and said stator teeth periodically align as said rotor rotates.
A control system for a modular electric machine having a rotor with a plurality of spaced modular magnetic assemblies each including a pole element and at least one bias magnet proximate said pole element disposed around an outer circumference thereof and a stator having a plurality of windings around a plurality of stator teeth, said rotor positioned within said stator such that said pole elements and said stator teeth periodically align as said rotor rotates comprising:
- a plurality of motor drives for providing electrical current sequentially to a specified sequence of said plurality of modular windings for producing an electromagnetic field, whereby each of said plurality of drives produces an independent rotating electromagnetic field in said stator thereby driving said rotor.
A method of controlling a modular electric machine having a rotor with a plurality of modular spaced magnetic assemblies each including a pole element and at least one bias magnet proximate said pole element disposed around an outer circumference thereof and a stator having a plurality of windings around a plurality of stator teeth, said rotor positioned within said stator such that said pole elements and said stator teeth periodically align as said rotor rotates comprising the steps of:
- providing a plurality of motor drives for providing electrical current sequentially to a specified sequence of said plurality of modular windings for producing an electromagnetic field;
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- generating an independent rotating electromagnetic field with each of said plurality of motor drives in said stator thereby driving said rotor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.