Electric multipolar machine

• US 4,978,878 A
• Filed: 06/19/1989
• Issued: 12/18/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Dijken, Reinder H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Skudy, R.
• Application Number:
  US07/368,488
• Time in Patent Office: 547 Days
• Field of Search: 310/181, 310/67 R, 310/46, 310/40 MM, 310/268, 310/154, 310/114, 310/156, 310/49 R, 310/68 R, 310/266, 310/177
• US Class Current: 310/268
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 21/44 with armature windings wound upon the magnets
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 37/20 with rotating flux distributors, the armatures and magnets both being stationary

Abstract

Electric multipolar machine, comprising a first machine part (1) with a magnetically soft outer element, a second machine part (3) arranged coaxially relative to the first machine part, with a magnetically soft inner element, provided with at least three teeth (17-19) and active coils (23, 24, 25), permanent magnets arranged in a circular path and ending in pole faces (31A1-A4, 31B1-B4, 31C1-C4), which mate with tooth faces (15A-H) across an air gap (35, 37), and a machine shaft (5), about which one of the abovementioned machine parts is rotatable relative to the other machine part. The outer element of the first machine part has at least one toothed magnetically soft disc-shaped plate (9, 11), which is provided with tooth faces distributed uniformly over the periphery of the plate. The magnets are disposed on the teeth of the second machine part, the pole faces being arranged in groups, with at least three groups of magnets being present, and the adjacent pole faces in each of the abovementioned groups having an opposite polarity. The pitch of the tooth faces, measured over a circle going through the tooth faces, is approximately twice the pitch of the pole faces in each of the abovementioned groups, measured over the same circle.

Claims

1. Electric multipolar machine of the electromagnetic type, comprising:

a first machine part with a magnetically soft first element,

a second machine part arranged coaxially relative to the first machine part, with a magnetically soft second element, provided with at least three teeth and with active coils,

permanent magnets arranged in a circular path and ending in pole faces which mate with tooth faces across an air gap, said pole faces and tooth faces being characterized by corresponding tangential dimensions, and

a machine shaft about which the abovementioned machine parts are rotatable relative to each other, characterized in that the first element of the first machine part has two parallel toothed magnetically soft disc-shaped plates, which are each provided with said tooth faces uniformly distributed over the periphery of the plate, the magnets are disposed on the teeth of the second machine part and are located between the two disc-shaped plates, and pole faces being arranged in groups, with at least three groups, spatially separated from each other, each of at least two magnets being present, while the number of groups of magnets is equal to the number of active coils, and adjacent pole faces in each of the abovementioned groups have an opposite polarity, and the centre-to-centre distance of two successive tooth faces, measured along a circular arc situated near the tooth faces, is at least nearly twice the centre-to-centre distance measured along the same circular arc between two neighbouring pole faces in each of the abovementioned groups, while the tangential dimension of the tooth faces is smaller than or equal to the corresponding dimension of the pole faces.

2. Electric machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the tooth faces of the disc-shaped plates of the first machine part extend radially and tangentially, and the teeth of the second machine part are provided with at least three groups of magnets at two sides facing the disc-shaped plates of the first machine part, the magnets being axially magnetized.

3. Electric machine according to claim 2, characterized in that the disc-shaped plates of the first machine part each have eight tooth faces, and the second machine part has three teeth, each with four pole faces facing the one and four pole faces facing the other disc-shaped plate.

4. Electric machine according to claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that the first machine part is designed as a rotor and the second machine part as a stator.

5. Electric machine according to claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that the machine is an electronically commutatable d.c. motor.