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US 9,425,662 B2Granted
Electric wire, coil, device for designing electric wire, and electric motor
AssigneeFujikura Ltd.
InventorsTakashi Shinmoto, Shotaro Yoshida, Ning Guan
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Abstract
An electric wire includes a conductive portion 11 made of a material having a volume resistivity higher than that of copper, wherein the volume resistivity of the conductive portion is specified so that, in a frequency range in which the electric wire is used, a ratio of AC resistance of the conductive portion 11 to AC resistance of reference copper wire is less than 1.
Claims1
An electric motor, comprising:
- a plurality of iron cores arranged on a circle;
- a plurality of coils wound with an electric wire on the plurality of iron cores, the electric wire including a central conductor made of aluminum or aluminum alloy and a cover layer made of copper covering the central conductor;
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- a rotor rotated by the plurality of coils to which alternating-current is applied, wherein
- the frequency of alternating current applied to the coils is controlled by an inverter method to fall between a first frequency and a second frequency higher than the first frequency, the first and second frequencies being frequencies at which the AC resistance of the coil is lower than that of a coil wound with the reference copper wire.
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