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Motor generator operating on the reluctance principle

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6307200
For an internal combustion engine, such as a motor vehicle engine, operating on the principle of ''flywheel utilization'' an electromagnetic unit can be used both as a starter motor and as a generator. In addition, this unit is easily adaptable to the given flywheel dimensions and it involves as low a cost as possible for the controlling semiconductor components and for the exciter power. The invention proposes, among other things: (a) a stator with several independent sector stators arranged at tangential distance from each other, with pairs of toothed sector stator elements arranged at an axial distance a one behind the other and each having a radially projecting pole shank connected together by a flux return yoke; (b) a rotor with two rows of teeth mutually offset ''tooth on gap'' on the circumference of the clutch flywheel; and (c) use of MOS transistors for the electrical commutating of motor operation, the inverse diodes of which are utilized as rectifier elements in generator operation.
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
Patent Number(s):
US 4550280
OSTI ID:
6307200
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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