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Single and polyphase electromagnetic induction machines having regulated polar magnetic symmetry
Assignee: SPC HOLDING Co Inc 40 EAST SOUTH TEMPLE SALT LAKE CITY UT 84111 A CORP OF UTAH
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Filing: 1987-08-12
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Granted: 1989-02-28
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Expires: 2007-08-12
Abstract
Abstract An induction motor includes a stator having at least one pair of stator windings and a rotor with rotor windings which are magnetically coupled to the stator windings via a circumferential air gap. The rotor windings are connected together in a squirrel cage or a wound rotor configuration. The stator windings are connected in series across the source. A capacitor is connected in parallel with one of the stator windings and this combination is connected in series with the other stator winding and is sized to form a quasi-double-resonant circuit, i.e., a quasi-parallel resonant circuit with the one winding and a quasi-series resonant circuit with the other winding. The stator windings are then grouped to form definite polar areas in the stator and a balanced rotating magnetic field is produced by all the windings throughout the entire load range when the motor is connected to a power source. Both a single-phase and a polyphase motor can be configured as a quasi-double-resonant circuit with respect to each input power phase. A further polyphase motor is also described with primary stator windings connected to each power phase input and interleaved secondary stator winding magnetically coupled to the primary stator windings but not directly connected to the power inputs. The secondary stator windings have capacitors coupled in parallel thereto to form parallel floating resonant circuits. In all of these motors, the power factor is in the range of 0.96 to 1.00, but normally closer to unity due to the resonant behavior of the circuitry. The induction motor can be driven above synchronous speed to act as a generator. Also, a method of generating torque is described.
Inventors
- 👤 Gary D. Roberts
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 04:21
CPC Classifications
H; H02; H02K; H02K3/00; H02K3/04; H02K3/12; H02K3/16; H02K17/00; H02K17/02; H02K17/28
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 44
Claim 1
Independent Claim
97 words
An electromagnetic induction machine comprising: a rotatable, magnetically excitable rotor; a stationary stator operatively associated with said rotor; at least two windings electrically connected in series and each winding defining a pair of magnetic poles disposed proximate said rotor in said stator; and capacitor means in parallel combination with one of said windings and said combination in series with the other one of said windings, the size of the capacitor being such that a quasi-parallel resonant circuit is formed with said one winding and a quasi-series resonant circuit is formed with said other one of said windings.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
97 words
An electromagnetic induction machine comprising: a rotatable, magnetically excitable rotor; a stationary stator operatively associated with said rotor; at least two windings electrically connected in series and each winding defining a pair of magnetic poles disposed proximate said rotor in said stator; and capacitor means in parallel combination with one of said windings and said combination in series with the other one of said windings, the size of the capacitor being such that a quasi-parallel resonant circuit is formed with said one winding and a quasi-series resonant circuit is formed with said other one of said windings.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
42 words
An induction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said machine has at least one pair of power input terminals which are adapted to be coupled to an a.c. power source and the serially connected windings are coupled across said input terminals.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
85 words
An induction machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein said rotor includes a plurality of longitudinally insulated conductors, said stator circumferentially surrounds said rotor and includes teeth radially extending towards said rotor, and said windings establish said magnetic poles via said teeth when excited, wherein a balanced rotating magnetic field is present due to the transfer of energy from the excited windings to said rotor, the return of energy from said rotor to said windings and the storage of the returned energy in said capacitor.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
17 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said rotor circumferentially surrounds said stationary stator.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
22 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said capacitor means comprises at least one alternating-current bipolar, non-electrolytic liquid-type capacitor.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
46 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a second capacitor means arranged in series with a switch means, said arrangement being in parallel with said capacitor means, said switch means being normally closed, and opened when said rotor reaches a certain speed.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
32 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 6, wherein said second capacitor means being selected from the group consisting essentially of a.c. bipolar, non-electrolytic liquid-type capacitors and a.c. bipolar electrolytic-type capacitors.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
34 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein said capacitor means in said two quasi-resonant circuits serve as a phase doubling capacitor by creating two balanced phases from said input power source.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
35 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the phase voltages generated for each of said two windings is approximately equal to the applied phase voltage divided by the square root of two.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
34 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said serially connected windings are wound with effective turns ranging from the same number of turns in each winding to a ratio of 1.05:1.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
33 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said serially connected windings substantially are wound with wire size ranging from the same size in each winding to a ratio of 1:2.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
46 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 11, wherein the serially connected windings, when wound with unequal wire sizes, having the quasi-series winding as the winding with the smaller circular mil area and the quasi-parallel winding as the winding with the larger circular mil area.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
31 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an air gap between said teeth and said rotor, wherein said air gap includes a perfectly round revolving magnetic field.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
33 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein due to the reduction of current in the windings, said machine is operative in the linear portion of the BH curve below saturation.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
28 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the quasi-resonant windings are placed relative to each other in the range between 60 and 130 electrical degrees.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
24 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 15, wherein the quasi-resonant windings are placed at substantially 90 electrical degrees relative to each other.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
160 words
An inductive dynamoelectric machine comprising: a hollow, cylindrically shaped, longitudinally slotted stator; at least a pair of stator windings disposed in the slots around the interior of said stator, said stator windings being electrically serially connected together and connected across a power input of said dynamoelectric machine; a capacitor in parallel combination with one of said stator windings and said combination in series with the other said stator winding forming a quasi-double-resonant circuit that includes a quasi-series resonant circuit and a quasi-parallel resonant circuit; a longitudinally slotted, rotatable rotor disposed in the interior space defined by said stator; and a plurality of electrically coupled rotor windings disposed in the slots on the periphery of said rotor wherein said stator windings and said rotor windings are magnetically coupled together and a balanced rotating magnetic flux wave is produced due to the storage and delivery of energy by the capacitor, the stator windings and the rotor windings under substantially all load conditions.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
160 words
An inductive dynamoelectric machine comprising: a hollow, cylindrically shaped, longitudinally slotted stator; at least a pair of stator windings disposed in the slots around the interior of said stator, said stator windings being electrically serially connected together and connected across a power input of said dynamoelectric machine; a capacitor in parallel combination with one of said stator windings and said combination in series with the other said stator winding forming a quasi-double-resonant circuit that includes a quasi-series resonant circuit and a quasi-parallel resonant circuit; a longitudinally slotted, rotatable rotor disposed in the interior space defined by said stator; and a plurality of electrically coupled rotor windings disposed in the slots on the periphery of said rotor wherein said stator windings and said rotor windings are magnetically coupled together and a balanced rotating magnetic flux wave is produced due to the storage and delivery of energy by the capacitor, the stator windings and the rotor windings under substantially all load conditions.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
42 words
An inductive dynamoelectric machine as claimed in claim 17, wherein the capacitance value of said capacitor is selected to produce said quasi-double-resonance circuit and wherein the Q factor of said quasi-double-resonance circuit is continually adjusted by the admittance of the rotor windings.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
22 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 17, wherein said capacitor means comprises at least one alternating-current bipolar, non-electrolytic liquid-type capacitor.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
45 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 17, further comprising second capacitor means arranged in series with a switch means, said arrangement being in parallel with said capacitor means, said switch means being normally closed, and opened when said rotor reaches a certain speed.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
31 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 20, wherein all second capacitor means being selected from the group consisting essentially of a.c. bipolar, non-electrolytic liquid-type and a.c. bipolar, electrolytic-type capacitor.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
34 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 17, wherein said capacitor means in said two quasi-resonant circuits serve as a phase doubling capacitor by creating two balanced phases from said input power source.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
34 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 17, wherein the phase voltages generated for each of said windings are approximately equal to the applied phase voltage divided by the square root of two.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
34 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 17, wherein said serially connected windings are wound with effective turns ranging from the same number of turns in each winding to a ratio of 1.05:1.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
33 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 17, wherein said serially connected windings substantially are wound with wire size ranging from the same size in each winding to a ratio of 1:2.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
46 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 17, wherein the serially connected windings, when wound with unequal wire size, have the quasi-series winding as the winding with the smaller circular mil area and the quasi-parallel winding as the winding with the largest circular mil area.
Claim 29
Dependent Claim
31 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 17, further comprising an air gap between said teeth and said rotor, wherein said air gap includes a perfectly round revolving magnetic field.
Claim 30
Dependent Claim
35 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 17, wherein due to the reduction of current in the windings, said machine is operative in the linear portion of the BH curve or well below saturation.
Claim 31
Dependent Claim
28 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 17, wherein the quasi-resonant windings are placed relative to each other in the range between 60 and 130 electrical degrees.
Claim 32
Dependent Claim
24 words
An electromagnetic induction machine as claimed in claim 29, wherein the quasi-resonant windings are placed at substantially 90 electrical degrees relative to each other.
Claim 33
Dependent Claim
146 words
A polyphase inductive dynamoelectric machine adapted to be supplied with a polyphase power at a like number of power phase input terminals comprising: a rotatable rotor carrying a plurality of interconnected rotor windings; a stator circumferentially surrounding said rotor; a pair of serially connected stator windings for each phase of said polyphase power disposed in said stator, each pair receiving, via one of said power input terminals, a different phase of said polyphase power and adapted to be magnetically coupled to said rotor windings; and a respective capacitor for each pair of stator windings, said respective capacitor connected in series with a first winding of said pair and in parallel with a second winding thereof, the size of the capacitor being such that a respective quasi-series resonant circuit is formed with said first winding and a respective quasi-parallel resonant circuit is formed with said second winding.
Claim 34
Dependent Claim
146 words
A polyphase inductive dynamoelectric machine adapted to be supplied with a polyphase power at a like number of power phase input terminals comprising: a rotatable rotor carrying a plurality of interconnected rotor windings; a stator circumferentially surrounding said rotor; a pair of serially connected stator windings for each phase of said polyphase power disposed in said stator, each pair receiving, via one of said power input terminals, a different phase of said polyphase power and adapted to be magnetically coupled to said rotor windings; and a respective capacitor for each pair of stator windings, said respective capacitor connected in series with a first winding of said pair and in parallel with a second winding thereof, the size of the capacitor being such that a respective quasi-series resonant circuit is formed with said first winding and a respective quasi-parallel resonant circuit is formed with said second winding.
Claim 35
Dependent Claim
29 words
A polyphase inductive dynamoelectric machine as claimed in claim 31, wherein all the pairs of stator windings are connected in a Δ configuration with respect to said input terminals.
Claim 36
Dependent Claim
29 words
A polyphase inductive dynamoelectric machine as claimed in claim 31, wherein all the pairs of stator windings are connected in a wye configuration with respect to said input terminals.
Claim 37
Independent Claim
155 words
A method of generating torque form an a.c. power source including the steps of: forming a quasi-souble-resonant circuit comprising two stationary serially connected inductive elements and a capacitive element connected in parallel combination with one of said inductive elements and the combination connected in series with the other of said inductive elements to respectively form a quasi-parallel resonant circuit and a quasi-series resonant circuit; providing a rotatable inductive element adapted to deliver torque; applying said a.c. power across said two serially connected inductive elements; magnetically coupling said two serially connected inductive elements with said rotatable inductive element; and producing a balanced rotating magnetic flux wave by storing and by delivering stored energy from one of said quasi-serial resonant circuit or said quasi-parallel resonant circuit to the other one of said quasi-serial resonant circuit or said quasi-parallel resonant circuit upon a change in the magnetic flux linking said two inductive elements and said rotating inductive element.
Claim 38
Independent Claim
155 words
A method of generating torque form an a.c. power source including the steps of: forming a quasi-souble-resonant circuit comprising two stationary serially connected inductive elements and a capacitive element connected in parallel combination with one of said inductive elements and the combination connected in series with the other of said inductive elements to respectively form a quasi-parallel resonant circuit and a quasi-series resonant circuit; providing a rotatable inductive element adapted to deliver torque; applying said a.c. power across said two serially connected inductive elements; magnetically coupling said two serially connected inductive elements with said rotatable inductive element; and producing a balanced rotating magnetic flux wave by storing and by delivering stored energy from one of said quasi-serial resonant circuit or said quasi-parallel resonant circuit to the other one of said quasi-serial resonant circuit or said quasi-parallel resonant circuit upon a change in the magnetic flux linking said two inductive elements and said rotating inductive element.
Claim 39
Independent Claim
151 words
A method of generating torque from an a.c. power source including the steps of: forming a quasi-double-resonant circuit comprising two stationary serially connected inductive elements and a capacitive element connected in series with one of said inductive elements and in parallel to the other of said inductive elements to respectively form a quasi-series resonant circuit and a quasi-parallel resonant circuit; providing a rotatable inductive element adapted to deliver torque; applying said a.c. power across said two serially connected inductive elements; magnetically coupling said two serially connected inductive elements with said rotatable inductive element; and producing a balanced rotating magnetic flux wave by storing and by delivering stored energy from one of said quasi-serial resonant circuit or said quasi-parallel resonant circuit to the other one of said quasi-serial resonant circuit or said quasi-parallel resonant circuit upon a change in the magnetic flux linking said two inductive elements and said rotating inductive element.
Claim 40
Independent Claim
151 words
A method of generating torque from an a.c. power source including the steps of: forming a quasi-double-resonant circuit comprising two stationary serially connected inductive elements and a capacitive element connected in series with one of said inductive elements and in parallel to the other of said inductive elements to respectively form a quasi-series resonant circuit and a quasi-parallel resonant circuit; providing a rotatable inductive element adapted to deliver torque; applying said a.c. power across said two serially connected inductive elements; magnetically coupling said two serially connected inductive elements with said rotatable inductive element; and producing a balanced rotating magnetic flux wave by storing and by delivering stored energy from one of said quasi-serial resonant circuit or said quasi-parallel resonant circuit to the other one of said quasi-serial resonant circuit or said quasi-parallel resonant circuit upon a change in the magnetic flux linking said two inductive elements and said rotating inductive element.
Claim 41
Dependent Claim
147 words
A polyphase inductive dynamoelectric machine adapted to be supplied with a polyphase power at a like number of power phase input terminals comprising: a rotatable rotor carrying a plurality of interconnected rotor windings; said rotor circumferentially surrounding a stationary stator; a pair of serially connected stator windings for each phase of said polyphase power disposed in said stator, each pair receiving, via one of said power input terminals, a different phase of said polyphase power and adapted to be magnetically coupled to said rotor windings; and a respective capacitor for each pair of stator windings, said respective capacitor connected in quasiseries with a first winding of said pair and in parallel with a second winding thereof, the size of the capacitor being such that a respective quasi-series resonant circuit is formed with said first winding and a respective quasi-parallel resonant circuit is formed with said second winding.
Claim 42
Dependent Claim
147 words
A polyphase inductive dynamoelectric machine adapted to be supplied with a polyphase power at a like number of power phase input terminals comprising: a rotatable rotor carrying a plurality of interconnected rotor windings; said rotor circumferentially surrounding a stationary stator; a pair of serially connected stator windings for each phase of said polyphase power disposed in said stator, each pair receiving, via one of said power input terminals, a different phase of said polyphase power and adapted to be magnetically coupled to said rotor windings; and a respective capacitor for each pair of stator windings, said respective capacitor connected in quasiseries with a first winding of said pair and in parallel with a second winding thereof, the size of the capacitor being such that a respective quasi-series resonant circuit is formed with said first winding and a respective quasi-parallel resonant circuit is formed with said second winding.
Claim 43
Dependent Claim
29 words
A polyphase inductive dynamoelectric machine as claimed in claim 36 wherein all the pairs of stator windings are connected in a Δ configuration with respect to said, input terminals.
Claim 44
Dependent Claim
29 words
A polyphase inductive dynamoelectric machine as claimed in claim 36, wherein all the pairs of stator windings are connected in a wye configuration with respect to said input terminals.
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