Brushless rotating electrical machine
First Claim
1. A brushless rotating electrical machine for transferring power and having a shaft, comprising:
- a rotor member means attached to the machine shaft and includes at least one rotor coil means and a rotor magnetic path means, wherein said rotor coil means is magnetically coupled to said rotor path means and the axis of said machine shaft passes through said rotor coil means;
a stator member means includes at least one stator coil means;
a stationary yoke member means made up of magnetic flux conducting material which forms at least one air gap with the rotor magnetic path means, said stationary yoke member means completes a closed magnetic circuit mutually coupling said rotor means and said stator coil means, said stationary yoke member means is disposed so as too allow free relative motion of said rotor member means with respect to said stator member means and said stationary yoke member means;
said stator member means magnetically couples with said rotor member means in such a way that said stator coil means and said rotor coil means overlap each other and the magnetic circuit is completed by said stationary yoke member means and said at least one air gap; and
means for applying time variant voltage to the coil means of one of said member means, wherein a voltage is induced in the coil means of the other of said member means by virtue of mutual magnetic coupling between the coil means of the two member means and power is transferred from one member means to the other member means for use in said brushless rotating electrical machine.
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Abstract
A brushless rotating electrical machine based on a novel rotatable transformer. The motor can operate on both AC or DC. The rotatable transformer, termed brushless power unit, transfers power to the rotating armature without any physical contact and the operation of the brushless power unit is independent of speed of armature. A sensor on the armature detects the position of the armature coils in relation to magnetic neutral axis and switches semiconductor switching devices located on the armature to reverse the direction of current in the armature coils to commutate the current and produce a continuous torque. The electronic commutation is also applied to polyphase AC machines to obtain brushless operation. DC excitation system for synchronous machines can obtain brushless operation using the brushless power unit.
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14 Claims
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1. A brushless rotating electrical machine for transferring power and having a shaft, comprising:
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a rotor member means attached to the machine shaft and includes at least one rotor coil means and a rotor magnetic path means, wherein said rotor coil means is magnetically coupled to said rotor path means and the axis of said machine shaft passes through said rotor coil means; a stator member means includes at least one stator coil means; a stationary yoke member means made up of magnetic flux conducting material which forms at least one air gap with the rotor magnetic path means, said stationary yoke member means completes a closed magnetic circuit mutually coupling said rotor means and said stator coil means, said stationary yoke member means is disposed so as too allow free relative motion of said rotor member means with respect to said stator member means and said stationary yoke member means; said stator member means magnetically couples with said rotor member means in such a way that said stator coil means and said rotor coil means overlap each other and the magnetic circuit is completed by said stationary yoke member means and said at least one air gap; and means for applying time variant voltage to the coil means of one of said member means, wherein a voltage is induced in the coil means of the other of said member means by virtue of mutual magnetic coupling between the coil means of the two member means and power is transferred from one member means to the other member means for use in said brushless rotating electrical machine. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A brushless rotating electrical machine for transfer of power and having a shaft, comprising:
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a rotor member means attached to the machine shaft and includes at least one rotor coil means and a rotor magnetic path means, wherein said rotor coil means is magnetically coupled to said rotor magnetic path means; a stator member means includes at least one stator coil means, wherein the axis of the machine shaft passes through said stator coil means; a stationary yoke member means forms at least one air gap with said rotor magnetic path means, said stationary yoke member means completes a closed magnetic circuit mutually coupling said rotor coil means and said stator coil means, and said stationary yoke member means is disposed so as to allow free relative motion of said rotor member means with respect to said stator member means and said stationary yoke member means; said stationary yoke member means comprises a cylindrical structure occupied by a means capable of carrying magnetic flux and is characterized by a hollow cylinder made up of spirally wound sheet of magnetic flux conducting material; at least one rotating member attached to the machine shaft and forms said rotor magnetic path means by linking magnetic flux from one end of said cylindrical structure to the other end; and means for applying time variant voltage to the coil means of one of said member means, wherein a voltage is induced in the coil means of the other of said member means by virtue of mutual magnetic coupling between the coil means of the two member means and power is transferred from one member mans to the other member means for use in said brushless rotating electrical machine. - View Dependent Claims (5)
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6. A brushless rotating electrical machine having a shaft, comprising:
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an armature magnetic path means; a motor armature means attached to the machine shaft and includes a plurality of coils located in a plurality with slots, said motor armature means is magnetically coupled to said armature magnetic path means; a motor field member means includes a field pole means having a plurality of magnetic poles of opposite polarity with inner polar region located between two poles of opposite polarity, and is further disposed so as to receive said motor armature means which is able to be freely rotated inside the motor field member means, said rotor field member means includes a field magnetic path means; means for transferring power between a rotating member attached to the motor armature means and a stationary member attached to the motor field member means, said stationary member and said rotating member forming a brushless power unit; a timing and control unit for directing and controlling a power transfer between a source of power located on the machine shaft and the coils of said motor armature means, said timing and control unit comprises; (1) a plurality of semiconductor switching devices connected between the coils of said motor armature means and said source of power, wherein said semiconductor switching devices drive the current through the coils of said motor armature means in desired direction by selectively switching said semiconductor switching devices into conduction and out of conduction; (2) means for generating commutation signals, including a means for detecting the relative position of the coils of the motor armature means with respect to some unique region on the field pole means characterized by a neutral axis between the two opposite field poles, wherein said commutation signals selectively control the semiconductor switching devices, located on the motor armature means, in proper sequence to reverse the direction of current in the coils of said motor armature means at a desired point of rotation in order to effect commutation and thereby generating a required electromechanical action between the motor armature means and the motor field member means; and (3) a rectifier unit for supplying DC power to the coils of said motor armature means for DC operation. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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