WO1999045624A1 - An improved electric motor - Google Patents
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- WO1999045624A1 WO1999045624A1 PCT/US1999/004698 US9904698W WO9945624A1 WO 1999045624 A1 WO1999045624 A1 WO 1999045624A1 US 9904698 W US9904698 W US 9904698W WO 9945624 A1 WO9945624 A1 WO 9945624A1
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- ring rotor
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
- H02K21/00—Synchronous motors having permanent magnets; Synchronous generators having permanent magnets
- H02K21/12—Synchronous motors having permanent magnets; Synchronous generators having permanent magnets with stationary armatures and rotating magnets
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- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
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- H02K1/00—Details of the magnetic circuit
- H02K1/06—Details of the magnetic circuit characterised by the shape, form or construction
- H02K1/22—Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit
- H02K1/27—Rotor cores with permanent magnets
- H02K1/2706—Inner rotors
- H02K1/272—Inner rotors the magnetisation axis of the magnets being perpendicular to the rotor axis
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
- H02K41/00—Propulsion systems in which a rigid body is moved along a path due to dynamo-electric interaction between the body and a magnetic field travelling along the path
- H02K41/02—Linear motors; Sectional motors
- H02K41/03—Synchronous motors; Motors moving step by step; Reluctance motors
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
- H02K7/00—Arrangements for handling mechanical energy structurally associated with dynamo-electric machines, e.g. structural association with mechanical driving motors or auxiliary dynamo-electric machines
- H02K7/10—Structural association with clutches, brakes, gears, pulleys or mechanical starters
- H02K7/116—Structural association with clutches, brakes, gears, pulleys or mechanical starters with gears
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
- H02K2205/00—Specific aspects not provided for in the other groups of this subclass relating to casings, enclosures, supports
- H02K2205/12—Machines characterised by means for reducing windage losses or windage noise
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- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
- H02K29/00—Motors or generators having non-mechanical commutating devices, e.g. discharge tubes or semiconductor devices
- H02K29/06—Motors or generators having non-mechanical commutating devices, e.g. discharge tubes or semiconductor devices with position sensing devices
- H02K29/08—Motors or generators having non-mechanical commutating devices, e.g. discharge tubes or semiconductor devices with position sensing devices using magnetic effect devices, e.g. Hall-plates, magneto-resistors
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
- H02K5/00—Casings; Enclosures; Supports
- H02K5/02—Casings or enclosures characterised by the material thereof
Definitions
- Field of Invention is in the realm of electric motors.
- the present embodiment of the invention is directed toward the need for a highly efficient, long lasting and powerful electric motor.
- This embodiment comprises a housing, a ring rotor with a plurality of permanent magnets attached, bobbin wound stators affixed to the housing through which the ring rotor completely passes, one set of planet gears for torque transmission, another set of planet gears for speed reduction, a sun gear for powering an output shaft, and a plurality of support bearings.
- Fig. 1 shows a head-on view of the electric motor without the housing
- Fig. 2 shows a sectioned side view of the electric motor with a cut-away housing.
- this electric motor uses a housing 12 that completely encloses the motor apparatus.
- the housing 12 can seal the apparatus from the outside environment allowing a vacuum to be drawn inside the housing.
- the vacuum reduces the amount of air resistance the moving parts of the motor may generate and also reduces the propensity of the difference of electrical potential present in the motor to cause arc-over. Both air resistance and electrical arc-over can reduce the efficiency of the electric motor. Efficiency is important because this electric motor configuration is trying to maximize the conversion of electrical power into useful mechanical torque.
- the ring rotor 1 has a predetermined number of permanent magnets 2 affixed around the ring rotor's 1 periphery in an evenly spaced manner.
- the North magnetic poles of the permanent magnets 2 are oriented in an alternating direction. As an example, a randomly selected magnet may have it's North pole facing in the direction of the ring rotor's rotation. The adjacent magnet will have it's North pole facing opposite the direction of the ring rotor's rotation. In the present embodiment 24 permanent magnets are used. The number of permanent magnets used in a different embodiment would be dependent on the selected diameter of the ring rotor 1 and the 3 amount of output torque desired.
- the permanent magnets are attached to the ring rotor 1 by the means of an adhesive which is non- outgassing in a vacuum environment.
- Other attachment methods may be easily contemplated by those of ordinary skill in the art.
- the attachment method could be by the means of a press fit or by the use of a screw type fastener.
- Each permanent magnet 2 has a truncated disc shape with a substantially rectangular section removed from the end facing in the ring rotor's 1 axial direction. The removed section allows the permanent magnet to fit over the ring rotor's periphery and be permanently mounted thereon.
- the ring rotor 1 is fabricated from a nonconductive and nonmagnetizing material to reduce and thereby minimize stray eddy currents and stray magnetization that has the potential to reduce the efficiency of the motor.
- the width of the permanent magnet 2 may be selected empirically to maximize the motor torque for a given amount of electrical power.
- a total of six bobbin wound stator coils 3 are used to attract and repulse the permanent magnets located around the periphery of the ring rotor 1. This attraction and repulsion are what induce the movement the ring rotor 1 that is translated into the torque on the output shaft 8.
- the bobbin wound stator coils 3 are affixed to the housing 12 and completely encircle the ring rotor 1 with clearance for the permanent magnets 2 to pass through them unimpeded.
- Each pair of bobbin wound stator coils 3 in this embodiment are separated by an angle of 37 ° .
- Other embodiments may use a different number of coil sets and a different angle of pair separations. This would depend on the output torque and motor efficiency that is trying to be achieved. More coil sets could require that more electrical power be applied to the motor.
- the ring rotor 1 has gear teeth 10 cut along the entire length of its inner periphery. These teeth mesh with the torque transmitting planet gear 6 teeth.
- the planet gears 6 are arranged in an evenly spaced manner around the interior of the housing 12.
- the planet gears 6 are supported by their shafts 11 whose ends are, in turn, supported by bearings located in the motor housing 12.
- Mounted on the same 4 shaft with the torque transmitting planet gear 6 is a smaller speed reducing planet gear 7.
- the speed reducing planet gear 7 engages the output shaft sun gear 4. Thereby transmitting the torque received by the torque transmitting planet gear 6 to the output shaft sun gear 4 but at a reduced rotational speed.
- the output shaft sun gear 4 is mounted on a shaft which is in turn supported on it's ends by bearings located in the motor housing 12.
- the ring rotor 1 is held in position and supported by a number of air bearings 5.
- Other types of support structures are possible, including, but not limited to ball bearings, roller bearings, and needle bearings. However, air bearings minimize friction and therefor maximize motor efficiency.
- the air bearings 5 are capable of supporting both the axial and the radial forces that are generated by the ring rotor 1.
- the air bearings 5 have a chamfered rotational surface that matches the chamfer 13 present on the ring rotor 1.
- the air bearings 5 are mounted on an air bearing shaft 10, extending to and through the motor housing 12.
- An orifice 16 runs through the center of the air bearing shaft to allow compressed air to travel from an air source outside the housing
- the supporting air bearings 5 are placed equidistantly apart and in the preferred embodiment three are used for the ring rotor 1 support. Air bearings of this type are well known in the art.
- the bobbin wound stator coil 3 uses a superconducting material to reduce 1 2 R energy losses due to bobbin wound stator coil resistance.
- Bismuth-based compounds are being fashioned into superconducting wires and coils. These can be cooled with cheap and readily available liquid nitrogen. These materials are called high-temperature superconductor.
- the bobbin wound stator coils 3 are placed around the periphery of the ring rotor 1 in three sets of two coils each for a total of six coils. Each set of coils receives the same waveform of voltage at the same time. The waveforms are generated by a motor controller. However one coil in each set receives the waveforms 30 ° out of phase from the other coil in the set. This results in the permanent magnets 2 being 5 pulled into the coils and then alternately repulsed out of the coils in a sequential manner. The permanent magnets 2 are being pulled along much like the magnetic core of an solenoid. But in this case the motion is continuous and rotational rather than periodic and linear.
- a Hall Effect sensor 15 mounted in a fixed position in the motor housing 12 generates an electrical signal each time a permanent magnet 2 mounted on the ring rotor 1 passes by the sensor's position. This signal is used in a logic circuit to feed back the rotor speed to the motor controller 14. This feedback allows the motor controller 14 to smoothly accelerate the ring rotor 1 up to a preset speed and then to monitor and maintain that set speed.
- the configuration of this invention allows a number of individual motors to be sandwiched together in a chain to increase the torque output.
- This invention can also be used as a device to generate electrical power from a mechanical torque placed in the output shaft 8.
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WO2010115702A1 (en) * | 2009-04-08 | 2010-10-14 | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. | Engine transmission unit |
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US3585425A (en) * | 1969-09-25 | 1971-06-15 | Mesur Matic Electronics Corp | Moving coil step motor |
US3665227A (en) * | 1970-11-03 | 1972-05-23 | Raymond W Busch | Electric motor |
US3809933A (en) * | 1971-08-27 | 1974-05-07 | Hitachi Ltd | Supercooled rotor coil type electric machine |
US5610457A (en) * | 1994-02-07 | 1997-03-11 | Kabushiki Kaisha Sankyo Seiki Seisakusho | Brushless motor with hall elements for controlling drive circuit and for detecting a position of rotor by use of magnetic flux varying means |
US5831364A (en) * | 1997-01-22 | 1998-11-03 | Ingersoll-Dresser Pump Company | Encapsulated magnet carrier |
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US3585425A (en) * | 1969-09-25 | 1971-06-15 | Mesur Matic Electronics Corp | Moving coil step motor |
US3665227A (en) * | 1970-11-03 | 1972-05-23 | Raymond W Busch | Electric motor |
US3809933A (en) * | 1971-08-27 | 1974-05-07 | Hitachi Ltd | Supercooled rotor coil type electric machine |
US5610457A (en) * | 1994-02-07 | 1997-03-11 | Kabushiki Kaisha Sankyo Seiki Seisakusho | Brushless motor with hall elements for controlling drive circuit and for detecting a position of rotor by use of magnetic flux varying means |
US5831364A (en) * | 1997-01-22 | 1998-11-03 | Ingersoll-Dresser Pump Company | Encapsulated magnet carrier |
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WO2010115702A1 (en) * | 2009-04-08 | 2010-10-14 | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. | Engine transmission unit |
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