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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2010
Filed:
May. 31, 2007
Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-refaie, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Michael Kern, Rexford, NY (US);
Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Latham, NY (US);
Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Michael Kern, Rexford, NY (US);
Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Latham, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A synchronous reluctance machine is provided. The synchronous reluctance machine includes a stator having a stator core, the stator core including a number of fractional-slot concentrated windings wound around multiple stator teeth. The synchronous reluctance machine also includes a rotor having a rotor core and disposed with an air gap inside and concentric with the stator, wherein the rotor core includes a number of laminated sheets, wherein each of the laminated sheets is axially skewed with respect to neighboring ones of the laminated sheets, and wherein each of the laminated sheets includes multiple ferromagnetic regions and multiple non-ferromagnetic regions formed of a single material.