Development of an axial gap motor with amorphous metal cores

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1293-1299

  Wang, Zhuonan ^a   Masaki, Ryoso ^a   Morinaga, Shigeki ^b   Enomoto, Yuji ^a   Itabashi, Hiromitsu ^c   Ito, Motoya ^a   Tanigawa, Shigeho ^c  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b Aida Engineering Ltd   (Japan)

^c HITACHI CABLE LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amorphous core; axial gap motor; ferrite magnet; high efficiency; low cogging torque

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CORE; AXIAL GAP; COGGING TORQUE; FERRITE MAGNET; HIGH EFFICIENCY;

DESIGN; EFFICIENCY; FERRITE; FERRITE DEVICES; FERRITES; MAGNETS; STATORS; TORQUE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79956358075     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2011.2127430     Document Type: Article

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