US4535263A
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Electric D.C. motors with a plurality of units, each including a permanent magnet field device and a wound armature for producing poles
Assignee: Claverham Holdings Ltd
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Filing: 1982-09-13
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Granted: 1985-08-13
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Expires: 2002-09-13
Abstract
Abstract An electric motor, such as a limited-rotation-angle type, has two or more motor units, including spaced stators enclosing respective rotors on a common shaft. Circumferential, spaced permanent magnets are mounted on the rotors. Stator windings are recessed in slots that are angularly offset with respect to adjacent stator slots. This offset angle between spaced stators is equal to the slot pitch divided by the number of motor units. As a result, the cogging, or super-imposed varying torques of each motor section that occur as the magnets pass a stator slot, are out of phase, and thus substantially cancel out.
Inventors
- 👤 Robert W. Avery
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-26 21:03
CPC Classifications
H; H02; H02K; H02K26/00
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
157 words
An electric D.C. motor comprising two or more units each including a permanent magnet field device mounted to move angularly through a limited angle of rotation only relatively to a wound armature having coils for producing, when energized by a direct current, the same number of poles as the field, but located in a second number of equally spaced slots equal to an integral multiple of the number of poles, the wound armatures of all of said units being connected for simultaneous energization by a direct current in accordance with a demand signal, the units being mounted with the permanent field devices mechanically connected together in such relative position that the relative positions of the armature slots in relation to the poles of the permanent magnet field device of different motor units differs by an angle substantially equal to the slot pitch divided by the number of motor units so that their cogging torques substantially cancel out.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
157 words
An electric D.C. motor comprising two or more units each including a permanent magnet field device mounted to move angularly through a limited angle of rotation only relatively to a wound armature having coils for producing, when energized by a direct current, the same number of poles as the field, but located in a second number of equally spaced slots equal to an integral multiple of the number of poles, the wound armatures of all of said units being connected for simultaneous energization by a direct current in accordance with a demand signal, the units being mounted with the permanent field devices mechanically connected together in such relative position that the relative positions of the armature slots in relation to the poles of the permanent magnet field device of different motor units differs by an angle substantially equal to the slot pitch divided by the number of motor units so that their cogging torques substantially cancel out.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
140 words
An electric D.C. motor comprising two or more units each including a permanent magnet field device mounted to move angularly through a limited angle of rotation only, relatively to a wound armature having coils for producing, when energized by a direct current, the same number of poles as the field, but located in a second number of equally spaced slots equal to an integral multiple of the number of poles, the units being mounted with the permanent field devices mechanically connected together and their armatures mechanically connected together in such relative positions that the relative positions of the armature slots in relation to the poles of the permanent magnet field device of different motor units differs by an angle substantially equal to the slot pitch divided by the number of motor units so that their cogging torques substantially cancel out.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
140 words
An electric D.C. motor comprising two or more units each including a permanent magnet field device mounted to move angularly through a limited angle of rotation only, relatively to a wound armature having coils for producing, when energized by a direct current, the same number of poles as the field, but located in a second number of equally spaced slots equal to an integral multiple of the number of poles, the units being mounted with the permanent field devices mechanically connected together and their armatures mechanically connected together in such relative positions that the relative positions of the armature slots in relation to the poles of the permanent magnet field device of different motor units differs by an angle substantially equal to the slot pitch divided by the number of motor units so that their cogging torques substantially cancel out.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
25 words
An electric motor as claimed in claim 2 including means providing a D.C. demand signal from which the motor current is derived for producing torque.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
29 words
An electric motor as claimed in claim 2 including means providing a D.C. demand signal from which a motor current is derived for producing torque proportional to that current.
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