Optimizing the overlap between the stator teeth of a claw pole transverse-flux permanent-magnet machine

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1573-1578

  Masmoudi, Ahmed ^a   Njeh, Anis ^a   Mansouri, Ali ^a   Trabelsi, Hafedh ^a   Elantably, Ahmed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b Allison Transmission Div Gen M   (United States)

Author keywords

Claw pole topology; Cogging torque; Output torque; Overlap; Transverse flux permanent magnet machine

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC FLUX; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATORS; TOPOLOGY; TORQUE;

CLAW POLE TOPOLOGY; COGGING TORQUE; OUPUT TORQUE;

ELECTRIC MACHINERY;

EID: 2642526278     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.826621     Document Type: Article

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