Performance and Design of a Toroid-Coil Motor with Permanent Magnets

  • Günter Kastinger

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference proceedingspeer-review

Abstract

Electric motors with heteropolar surface magnets on the rotor and homopolar windings are suitable to get a simple and powerful small-sized stepping motor. Because of the search for a low-cost motor the concept of a toroid-coil motor with permanent magnets has been designed. Structure and specification are based on the threedimensional Finite Element Method (3D-FEM) presented in this paper. The 3D-FEM has been taken to calculate the magnetic field and the static torque has been computed with the Maxwell Stress Tensor Method. Analytical calculation has been used to investigate the influence of the pole pitch. The results are compared with test results of a prototype machine. Possible applications of the designed motor are stepper motors, servo applications, conveyor drives and direct drives.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSPEEDAM 1998, Proceedings Symposium on Power Electronics Electrical Drives Advanced Machines Power Quality
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - Jun 1998

Fields of science

  • 202 Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Engineering
  • 202009 Electrical drive engineering
  • 202011 Electrical machines
  • 202025 Power electronics
  • 202027 Mechatronics

Cite this