A three-phase permanent magnet brushless DC motor for low-power low-speed fan applications -optimizing cost and efficiency

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 846-852

  Gupta, Ranjan Kumar ^a,b   Mohan, Ned ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

BLDC; Efficiency, fan motors; Halbach

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEETINGS; BACK EMF; BONDED NDFEB; CONVENTIONAL DESIGNS; CURRENT-CONDUCTION; EFFICIENCY GAINS; FE-ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT (FE); FRAME SIZE; HALBACH; HALBACH MAGNETIZATION; LOW POWERS; NOVEL DESIGN; PERMANENT MAGNET BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR (PMBLDCM);

BRUSHLESS DC MOTORS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DC GENERATOR MOTORS; FERROMAGNETISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETS; MOTORS; OPTIMIZATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS;

DC MOTORS;

EID: 47849098270     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2007.133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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