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AIP Adv. 2017 Mar 07;7(5):056671. doi: 10.1063/1.4978400. eCollection 2017 May.

A novel PM motor with hybrid PM excitation and asymmetric rotor structure for high torque performance.

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Gaohong Xu, Guohai Liu, Xinxin Du, Fangfang Bian

PMID: 28382228 PMCID: PMC5346104 DOI: 10.1063/1.4978400

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel permanent magnet (PM) motor for high torque performance, in which hybrid PM material and asymmetric rotor design are applied. The hybrid PM material is adopted to reduce the consumption of rare-earth PM because ferrite PM is assisted to enhance the torque production. Meanwhile, the rotor structure is designed to be asymmetric by shifting the surface-insert PM (SPM), which is used to improve the torque performance, including average torque and torque ripple. Moreover, the reasons for improvement of the torque performance are explained by evaluation and analysis of the performances of the proposed motor. Compared with SPM motor and V-type motor, the merit of high utilization ratio of rare-earth PM is also confirmed, showing that the proposed motor can offer higher torque density and lower torque ripple simultaneously with less consumption of rare-earth PM.

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