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Title: Permanent-magnet switched-flux machine

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1176203

A permanent-magnet switched-flux (PMSF) device has a ferromagnetic outer stator mounted to a shaft about a central axis extending axially through the PMSF device. Pluralities of top and bottom stator poles are respectively mounted in first and second circles, radially outwardly in first and second transverse planes extending from first and second sections of the central axis adjacent to an inner surface of the ferromagnetic outer stator. A ferromagnetic inner rotor is coupled to the shaft and has i) a rotor core having a core axis co-axial with the central axis; and ii) first and second discs having respective outer edges with first and second pluralities of permanent magnets (PMs) mounted in first and second circles, radially outwardly from the rotor core axis in the first and second transverse planes. The first and second pluralities of PMs each include PMs of alternating polarity.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
ACL-3-32455-07
Assignee:
Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno
Patent Number(s):
7,646,126
Application Number:
12/135,867
OSTI ID:
1176203
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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