Double-excitation rotating electrical machine for adjustable defluxing

• US 7,701,104 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2003
• Issued: 04/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Akemakou, Antoine Dokou
• Primary Examiner(s): Leung; Quyen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Desai; Naishadh N
• Application Number:
  US10/524,481
• Publication Number:
  US 20060119206A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,442 Days
• Field of Search: 310/181, 310/168
• US Class Current: 310/181
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 21/042 with permanent magnets and field winding both rotating

Abstract

The invention concerns a rotating electrical machine comprising a stator enclosing a rotor including permanent excitation magnets (20, 24, 26, 30) capable of producing magnetic fluxes, and excitation coils (22, 28), capable of being excited or not and generating flux constituents which can counter the fluxes generated in the magnets, wherein the number (Na) of magnets and the number (Nb) of excitation coils as well as the mutual arrangement of the coils and the magnets relative to one another from an elementary pattern (me), said numbers Na of magnets, Nb of coils and Nme of elementary patterns capable of being modified depending on the desired basic intensity (Ibase) in the machine, said basic intensity being determined when the coils are not excited and on the desired modulation intensity (Imod) in the machine, said modulation intensity being determined when the coils are excited.

Claims

1. A rotating electrical machine that has a rotor with a body made of magnetic materials, a stator surrounding the rotor;

the stator has at least one armature coil, and the rotor has closed notches in the body and devices to selectively establish closed magnetic circuits passing around the armature coil of the stator;

these devices include;

permanent excitation magnets able to generate magnetic fluxes;

excitation coils housed in the notches of the rotor to define coiled poles;

said coils are able to be excited and generate magnetic flux components to counter the fluxes generated by at least some of the magnets to create defluxing;

wherein the number Na of magnets and the number Nb of excitation coils and the arrangement of the coils and magnets in relation to each other form a plurality (Nme) of identical elementary patterns (me), wherein each elementary pattern is defined as a set of magnets and coils associated with a specific order and distributed over all or part of a contour of the rotor and wherein the plurality of identical elementary patterns are used to control the basic power of the rotating electric machine,

wherein Na is equal to or greater than 1, Nb is equal to or greater than 1, Nine is equal to or greater than 1, and the pair Na, Nb is different than 1.1, and

wherein each elementary pattern (me) comprises at least one reluctance pole.

2. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1, wherein the magnets Na of the identical elementary patterns are arranged to generate a radial magnetic flux.

3. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 2, wherein the magnets in the identical elementary patterns have the same polarity.

4. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1, wherein the coil poles in the identical elementary patterns have the same polarity.

5. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1, wherein each elementary pattern comprises at least one coil pole and a consecutive magnet separated by at least one reluctance pole.

6. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1, wherein the winding strands of a coil belonging to an elementary pattern are held in two adjacent notches placed between two consecutive magnets.

7. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 wherein several of the identical elementary patterns are associated with each other.

8. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 7, wherein there is, between at least two consecutive elementary patterns, a succession of at least one pair of North-South or South-North poles created by at least one magnet.

9. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 8, wherein the at least one magnet inserted between the at least two consecutive elementary patterns has a different polarity from at least one magnet belonging to at least one elementary pattern.

10. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1, wherein the Nb coils are not all excited simultaneously.

11. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1, wherein the intensity of modulation (Imod) is in an interval between −

Ib and +Ib, where Ib is the maximum intensity of the magnetic flux supplied by the Nb coils.

12. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1, wherein there is a residual magnetic flux (Fr) coming from the magnets which is not subject to the influence of the defluxing magnetic flux (Fd) produced by the excitation coils.

13. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1, wherein the electrical machine consists of an automobile alternator.

14. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1, wherein the electrical machine consists of an automobile alternator-starter.

15. A rotating electrical machine comprising a rotor with a body made of magnetic materials, a stator surrounding the rotor;

the stator has at least one armature coil, and the rotor has closed notches in the body and devices to selectively establish closed magnetic circuits passing around the armature coil of the stator;

wherein the rotating electrical machine comprises;

permanent excitation magnets able to generate magnetic fluxes;

excitation coils housed in the notches of the rotor to define coiled poles;

said coils are able to be excited and generate magnetic flux components to counter the fluxes generated by at least some of the magnets to create defluxing;

wherein the number Na of magnets and the number Nb of excitation coils and the arrangement of the coils and magnets in relation to each other form a plurality (Nme) of identical elementary patterns (me),

wherein each elementary pattern is defined as a set of magnets and coils associated with a specific order and distributed over all or part of a contour of the rotor and wherein the plurality of identical elementary patterns are used to control the basic power of the rotating electric machine.

wherein Na is equal to or greater than 1, Nb is equal to or greater than 1, Nme is equal to or greater than 1, and the pair Na, Nb is different than 1.1, and

wherein each elementary pattern comprises at least two consecutive magnets separated by at least one reluctance pole.

16. A rotating electrical machine comprising a rotor with a body made of magnetic materials, a stator surrounding the rotor;

the stator has at least one armature coil, and the rotor has closed notches in the body and devices to selectively establish closed magnetic circuits passing around the armature coil of the stator;

wherein the rotating electrical machine comprises;

permanent excitation magnets able to generate magnetic fluxes;

excitation coils housed in the notches of the rotor to define coiled poles;

said coils are able to be excited and generate magnetic flux components to counter the fluxes generated by at least some of the magnets to create defluxing;

wherein the number Na of magnets and the number Nb of excitation coils and the arrangement of the coils and magnets in relation to each other form a plurality of identical elementary patterns (me),

wherein each elementary pattern is defined as a set of magnets and coils associated with a specific order and distributed over all or part of a contour of the rotor and wherein the plurality of identical elementary patterns are used to control the basic power of the rotating electric machine,

wherein Na is equal to or greater than 1, Nb is equal to or greater than 1, Nme is equal to or greater than 1, and the pair Na, Nb is different than 1.1, and

wherein each elementary pattern comprises at least two consecutive coil poles separated by at least one reluctance pole.

17. A rotating electrical machine comprising a rotor with a body made of magnetic materials, a stator surrounding the rotor;

the stator has at least one armature coil, and the rotor has closed notches in the body and devices to selectively establish closed magnetic circuits passing around the armature coil of the stator;

wherein the rotating electrical machine comprises;

permanent excitation magnets able to generate magnetic fluxes;

excitation coils housed in the notches of the rotor to define coiled poles;

said coils are able to be excited and generate magnetic flux components to counter the fluxes generated by at least some of the magnets to create defluxing;

wherein the number Na of magnets and the number Nb of excitation coils and the arrangement of the coils and magnets in relation to each other form a plurality (Nme) of identical elementary patterns (me),

wherein each elementary pattern is defined as a set of magnets and coils associated with a specific order and distributed over all or part of a contour of the rotor and

wherein the plurality of identical elementary patterns are used to control the basic power of the rotating electric machine,

wherein Na is equal to or greater than 1, Nb is equal to or greater than 1, Nme is equal to or greater than 1, and the pair Na, Nb is different than 1.1, and

wherein each elementary pattern comprises at least one coil pole and a consecutive magnet separated by at least one reluctance pole.