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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Norman Neilson Fulton, Leeds, GB;
Assignee:
Switched Reluctance Drives Limited, Harrogate, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
318701 ; 318254 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for increasing the starting torque of a two-phase switched reluctance motor is disclosed. The method involves the use of a specially constructed rotor position transducer with two sensing devices, each associated with one phase winding of the two-phase motor. The signals from the rotor position transducer are provided to a motor controller that energizes each winding whenever energization of the winding will produce torque in the desired direction.