Motor and/or generator operating according to the reluctance principle

• US 5,280,211 A
• Filed: 04/17/1992
• Issued: 01/18/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schmidt, Helmut, Zaps, Klaus, Winter, Udo, Weinhold, Wolfgang, Freise, Werner
• Primary Examiner(s): Skudy, R.
• Application Number:
  US07/849,000
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• Field of Search: 310/154, 310/42, 310/254, 310/166, 310/168, 310/163, 310/106, 310/179, 310/91, 310/180, 310/259, 310/181, 310/218, 310/162, 310/112, 310/164, 310/165, 310/158, 310/155, 318/701, 322/47, 322/50
• US Class Current: 310/168
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 11/04 the motors being associated with current generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 19/20 with variable-reluctance soft-iron rotors without winding
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 21/38 with rotating flux distributors, and armatures and magnets both stationary
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 41/02 Linear motors; Sectional motors
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 41/03 Synchronous motors; Motors moving step by step; Reluctance motors H02K41/035 takes precedence

Abstract

In a stator-excited synchronous machine with laminated sector stator elements (SS1 or SS2), which are arranged one behind another at an axial distance and are winding-excited by in each case one excitation winding part (EW1 or EW2) of opposite polarity, the operating efficiency can be increased with low outlay when a permanent magnet arrangement (M) having a magnetization opposing the winding excitation in the sector stator elements is provided in the axial spacing chamber between the sector stator elements (SS1 or SS2); in order to lock the position of the magnet arrangement (M), the facing laminations of the magnet arrangement (M) have bent-away tongues (Z) gripping radially from below.

Claims

1. An arrangement for use in a motor or generator, operating according to a reluctance principle, comprising:

(a) a stator,

(i) said stator having a plurality of sector stators, said sector stators being distributed around an outer circumference of a rotor and being magnetically, mutually separated, each of said sector stators including;

(A) a first toothed sector stator element and a second toothed sector stator element, said first toothed stator element being arranged behind said second toothed sector stator element at an axial distance from said second toothed stator element thereby forming an axial spacing chamber, said first and second toothed sector stator elements having common power windings, said first toothed sector stator element ending in a first radially projecting pole shank and said second toothed sector stator element ending in a second radially projecting pole shank, said first radially projecting pole shank being wrapped inside a first excitation winding adapted to excite said first radially projecting pole shank in a first direction, and said second radially projecting pole shank being wrapped inside a second excitation winding adapted to excite said second radially projecting pole shank in a second direction being opposite to said first direction; and

(b) a permanent magnet arrangement, said permanent magnet arrangement being axially magnetized perpendicular to the polarity of the winding excitations in said sector stator and opposite to a stray field of an exciting field generated by said first and second excitation windings, said permanent magnet arrangement having a yoke arch portion and a second portion, said second portion covering the stator teeth of said first and second toothed sector stator elements, and being provided in said axial spacing chamber between said first and second toothed sector stator elements.

2. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 1 wherein, said yoke arch portion and said second portion of said permanent magnet arrangement are included in one piece.

3. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 1 wherein, at least one of said first or second toothed sector stator elements has a retaining part, said retaining part preventing said permanent magnet arrangement from falling out of said axial spacing chamber.

4. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 2 wherein, at least one of said first or second toothed sector stator elements has a retaining part, said retaining part preventing said permanent magnet arrangement from falling out of said axial spacing chamber.

5. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 3 wherein, said retaining part is bent away from a radial end of teeth of said first or second toothed sector stator elements, said retaining part forming a tongue which provides a partial floor beneath said permanent magnet arrangement.

6. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 4 wherein, said retaining part is bent away from a radial end of teeth of said first or second toothed sector stator elements, said retaining part forming a tongue which provides a partial floor beneath said permanent magnet arrangement.

7. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 1 wherein, said first and second toothed sector stator elements are overlapped by nonmagnetic mounting brackets, said nonmagnetic mounting brackets being connected to at least one of said first and second toothed sector stator elements.

8. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 2 wherein, said first and second toothed sector stator elements are overlapped by nonmagnetic mounting brackets, said nonmagnetic mounting brackets being connected to at least one of said first and second toothed sector stator elements.

9. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 3 wherein, said first and second toothed sector stator elements are overlapped by nonmagnetic mounting brackets, said nonmagnetic mounting brackets being connected to at least one of said first and second toothed sector stator elements.

10. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 4 wherein, said first and second toothed sector stator elements are overlapped by nonmagnetic mounting brackets, said nonmagnetic mounting brackets being connected to at least one of said first and second toothed sector stator elements.

11. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 5 wherein, said first and second toothed sector stator elements are overlapped by nonmagnetic mounting brackets, said nonmagnetic mounting brackets being connected to at least one of said first and second toothed sector stator elements.

12. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 6 wherein, said first and second toothed sector stator elements are overlapped by nonmagnetic mounting brackets, said nonmagnetic mounting brackets being connected to at least one of said first and second toothed sector stator elements.

13. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 1 wherein, said first and second toothed sector stator elements have a radial line of symmetry and said pole shanks are positioned laterally offset from said radial line of symmetry.

14. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 13 wherein, said pole shanks are discrete components and said first and second toothed sector stator elements have at least one bearing surface which accommodates at least one of said pole shanks.

15. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator according to claim 14 wherein, said first and second toothed sector stator elements have mirror symmetry with respect to said radial line of symmetry such that said first and second toothed stator sector elements each have two bearing surfaces such that said two bearing surfaces have mirror symmetry with respect to said radial line.

16. The arrangement for use in a motor or generator, operating according to the reluctance principle according to claim 1, further comprising a return yoke connected to said first and second radially projecting pole shanks.