Basic Concepts
Basic Concepts
Basic Concepts
Motor Action the electromagnet, and hence the permanent magnet will poles will
be repelled by the like electromagnet poles.
All that’s required to understand how a permanent motor (PM)
works is the rudimentary knowledge that magnets are attracted to
iron, that opposite magnet poles attract, that like magnet poles repel
each other, and that current flowing in a coil of wire makes an elec-
tromagnet.
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𝜃𝑒 = 𝜃𝑚 (1)
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Since the stator teeth are pointed outward, this motor is rela-
tively easy to wind. For a given outer radius, an out-runner motor has
a much larger air gap radius than that of an inner rotor motor. As a
result, higher torque is achievable, provided the ohmic losses in the
stator can be dissipated.
• The bottle-neck feature for the flux path at the root of the
rotor tooth in the case of brushless machines with external
rotors (Figure 11);
Figure 9. Cross section of outer rotor motor. • Much of the rotor yoke is hardly utilized as a magnetic circuit;
• Heat from the stator winding is transferred to the stator core
Axial Flux Motors
and then to the stator yoke – there is poor heat removal
In this type of motor, the windings are oriented along the radial through the stator air gap, rotor and shaft without forced
direction, and the flux flows in the axial direction, as shown in Figure cooling arrangements.
10. In Figure 10-a, we have a view of a rotor with magnets of alter-
nating polarity. These magnets produce axial flux that interacts with
windings in radial slots, as shown in Figure 10-b.