Alternate poles wound flux-switching permanent-magnet brushless AC machines

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 790-797

  Owen, Richard L ^a   Zhu, Z Q ^a   Thomas, Arwyn S ^a   Jewell, Geraint W ^a   Howe, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternate poles wound; Brushless machine; Flux switching; Modular machine; Permanent magnet (PM) machine; Single layer winding

Indexed keywords

BRUSHLESS MACHINES; FLUX-SWITCHING; MODULAR MACHINES; PERMANENT-MAGNET MACHINE; SINGLE LAYER; SINGLE-LAYER WINDING;

PERMANENT MAGNETS; ROTORS (WINDINGS); STATORS; SWITCHING; TOPOLOGY; WINDING;

POLES;

EID: 77949896723     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2009.2039913     Document Type: Article

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