公开(公告)号：EP0193708A3

公开(公告)日：1987-04-08

申请号：EP86100354

申请日：1986-01-13

Applicant: KOLLMORGEN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

Inventor： Byrne, John V. ,  O'Dwyer, Jeremiah B.

IPC: H02K01/06 ,  H02K19/06

CPC classification number: H02K1/246 ,  H02K19/103 ,  H02P1/163

Abstract: in a two-phase salient pole variable reluctance motor in which the number of stator poles (24-27) is four or a multiple of four, alternate stator poles carry windings (31-34) of different phases and each stator pole (24-27) has an elongated pole shoe (53), so that the pole tips (28, 29) of each adjacent pair of stator poles are at a relatively short circumferential spacing. Each rotor pole (35, 36) has an iron depletion layer (37) in the vicinity of its poleface surface (38) which defines a saturating zone, across which the greater part of the magnetomotive force produced by energisation of the stator windings is developed due to the uniform build-up of flux with rotor angle throughout almost the entire duration of pole overlap. A working stroke approximating to stator pole pitch is achieved. The circumferential extent of each rotor pole (35, 36) is matched to that of the stator poles (24-27) so that when the rotor poles are fully aligned with a pair of stator poles, each rotor poletip (41, 42) is located in the vicinity of a pair of spaced apart stator pole tips (28, 29), the relative disposition of the pole tips being such that when both phases of the motor are then simultaneously excited, fringing flux passes through the rotor poletips (41, 42), this flux being relatively strong for one poletip of each rotor pole and relatively weak for the other poletip. When the rotor poles are initially positioned so that there is partial overlap between rotor and stator poles, the motor is started by a conventional reluctance motor phase energisation sequence, but when the rotor poles are initially fully aligned with a pair of stator poles, in which position neither phase acting alone is capable of producing torque, both phases are excited simultaneously, so that torque is applied to the rotor by the flux asymmetry prevailing in these circumstances to move the rotor into a disposition from which a normal phase energisation may be followed. The motor is bi-directional and self-starting in both senses from any rotor posi- tinn

公开(公告)号：EP0188239A3

公开(公告)日：1987-10-07

申请号：EP86100257

申请日：1986-01-10

Applicant: KOLLMORGEN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

Inventor： Byrne, John V. ,  O'Dwyer, Jeremiah B.

IPC: H02P07/00 ,  H02M07/515

CPC classification number: H02M7/521 ,  H02P25/0925

Abstract: In a power supply system for a variable reluctance motor, each phase winding (a, b) of the motor is connectible across a pair of supply rails by first (GTO a , GTO b ) and second (T a T e ) switch means located respectively between the first supply rail and the winding and between the winding and the second supply rail. The first switch means (GTO., GTO b ) is a fast switch-off device such as a gate tum-off thyristor or a transistor, while the second switch means (T a , T b ) is a slow turn-off device, such as a thyristor suitable for application to a line-commutation situation. In a two-phase configuration, where the second switch means is a thyristor, force- commutation of the second switch means may be achieved by means of a suitable capacitor (C c ) interconnection between the thyristors switching the respective phases.