Magnetic loading of fractional-slot three-phase PM motors with nonoverlapped coils

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1513-1521

  Bianchi, Nicola ^a   Bolognani, Silverio ^a   Dai Pré, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AC motor drive; Fault tolerant machines; Permanent magnet (PM) machines; PM motor drive

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; INDUCTANCE; MOTORS; POWDER METALLURGY;

AC MOTOR DRIVE; ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; FAULT-TOLERANT MACHINES; FINITE-ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FRACTIONAL-SLOT; MAGNETIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC LOADING; MUTUAL INDUCTANCES; PERMANENT-MAGNET (PM) MACHINES; PERMANENT-MAGNET MOTORS; PM MACHINES; PM MOTOR DRIVE; PM MOTORS; STATOR CURRENTS;

PERMANENT MAGNETS;

EID: 53349109175     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2008.2002205     Document Type: Article

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