Emerson Electric Company

Yifan Tang

Yue Li

A reluctance machine including a plurality of phase windings where each phase winding comprises a plurality of fractional-pitched coils. The reluctance machine may be coupled to a drive that can energize one, two or more of the phase windings to provide output torque that is derived from: (i) the self-inductances of the phase windings; (ii) a combination of the self-inductances of the phase windings and the mutual inductances between the phase windings; or (iii) the mutual inductances between the phase windings.

Reluctance machine with fractional pitch winding and drive therefore

A reluctance machine including one or more damping windings placed within the stator or within the rotor which are used to store and provide energy so as to reduce unwanted machine vibration and noise, improve current commutation, and improve the efficiency and torque output of the machine.

Switched reluctance motor with damping windings

A doubly-fed switched reluctance machine in which at least two sets of phase winding are energized to produce desired output torque is disclosed. Also disclosed are dual and single power converters for energizing the doubly-fed machine as well as exemplary excitation schemes position. Sensorless techniques and systems for controlling the doubly-fed machine, and other machines having fully-pitched or fractional-pitched windings, are also disclosed.

Method and apparatus for implementing sensorless control of a switched

A reluctance machine including a plurality of phase windings where each phase winding comprises a plurality of fractional-pitched coils. The reluctance machine may be coupled to a drive that can energize one, two or more of the phase windings to provide output torque that is derived from: (i) the self-inductances of the phase windings; (ii) a combination of the self inductances of the phase windings and the mutual inductances between the phase windings; or (iii) the mutual inductances between the phase windings.

A universal drive for a switched reluctance machine the drive obtaining a desired speed, the drive comprising means for automatically forming a magnetization table, said table containing information relating the magnetic flux, current, and rotor angle of said switched reluctance machine; means for automatically forming a rule table, the rule table containing information relating the torque of the SRM to turn-on and turn-off angles; sensors for sensing the dc bus voltage and currents of the phases of the machine; means for estimating a reference angle using information in the magnetization table and the sensed dc bus voltage and phase currents; means for obtaining the turn-on and turn-off angles from the self-tuned table based upon the desired speed; and means for turning the phase currents of the machine on at the turn-on angle in relation to the reference angle and turning the phase current off at the turn-off angle in relation to the reference angle.

Low-cost universal drive for use with switched reluctance machines

A reluctance machine including a stator defining a plurality of stator poles and a plurality of stator slots, a rotor positioned to rotate with respect to the stator, and a plurality of phase windings, where each phase winding comprises a plurality of coils, where each coil is wound about more than one stator pole, where each coil comprises two coils sides, and where only one coil side is positioned in each stator slot, wherein the self-inductance of each phase winding varies as a function of the angular position of the rotor with respect to the stator. Also a reluctance machine similar to that described above where each of the phase windings is magnetic uni-polar.

Reluctance machine

Doubly-fed switched reluctance machine

An improved reluctance machine is provided wherein auxiliary flux paths are provided such that the leakage flux of the machine is directed through the auxiliary flux paths and not through the excited stator poles to reduce the impact of stator pole saturation on the machine's performance.

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