Abstract: A step motor that provides reduced detent torque while maintaining adequate holding torque is characterized by a rotor that includes an annular ring of soft magnetic material (such as medium carbon steel) that surrounds the outer diameter of the rotor permanent magnet and is sandwiched by magnetic insulators of specified axial thickness. This provides a path within the rotor for flux from the permanent magnet in those areas where the radially adjacent stator poles are unenergized, but the magnetic flux can be pulled out by the ampere-turns of energized stator poles.

Abstract: The invention comprises a modular electric machine comprising a modular stator having a plurality of stator teeth and windings and a modular rotor comprising a plurality of modular magnetic elements for electromagnetic interaction with stator teeth. The invention further comprises a method of control of a modular electric machine.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotating shaft, a rotor fixed to the rotating shaft and first and second stators facing each other on opposite axial sides of the rotor with a gap in between. Each of the first and second stators includes a back yoke, teeth circumferentially arranged on a gap side of a respective one of the back yokes and coils wound around the teeth. The back yoke of the first stator has a portion facing an end face of the rotating shaft, and the back yoke of the second stator has a shaft hole through which the rotating shaft passes. The thickness Ty1 of the back yoke of the first stator is set smaller than the thickness Ty12 of the back yoke of the second stator.

Abstract: The present invention is a apparatus of multi-unit modular stackable switched reluctance motor system with parallely excited low reluctance circumferential magnetic flux loops for high torque density generation. For maximized benefits and advanced motor features, the present invention takes full combined advantages of both SRM architecture and “Axial Flux” architecture by applying “Axial Flux” architecture into SRM design without using any permanent magnet, by modularizing and stacking the “Axial Flux” SRM design for easy configuration and customization to satisfy various drive torque requirements and broad applications, and by incorporating an en energy recovery transformer for minimizing switching circuitry thus further lowering the cost and further increasing the reliability and robustness. Unlike prior arts, the present invention does not use any permanent magnet and this “Axial Flux” SRM system is modularized and stackable with many benefits.

Abstract: An electric motor is provided which includes a stator, in which field magnets are fixedly and radially installed on a circular panel-shaped base. A coaxial cylindrical rotor is coupled to a shaft and is configured to allow the stator to be located at an inside thereof, the rotor being configured such that magnets, having different polarities to form each pair, are attached on an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder of the rotor and are arranged opposite each other. A rotary magnet plate is coupled to the shaft on a top of the cover, and is provided with a number of magnets corresponding to a number of pairs of the rotor magnets. The respective pairs of rotor magnets are arranged on the outer and inner cylinders while being spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval.