Performance improvement in high-performance brushless rare-earth magnet motors for hybrid vehicles by use of high flux-density steel

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3016-3019

  Dorrell, David G ^a   Knight, Andrew M ^b   Popescu, Mircea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MOTOR DESIGN LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brushless AC motor; efficiency; high flux steel; Hybrid electric vehicle; interior permanent magnet (IPM) rotor

Indexed keywords

AC MOTORS; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; EFFICIENCY; HYBRID VEHICLES; LAMINATING; RARE EARTHS; TRACTION MOTORS; VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

BRUSHLESS AC MOTORS; ELECTRICAL VEHICLES; FIELD WEAKENING CONTROL; HIGH FLUX; INTERIOR PERMANENT MAGNET; PERMANENT MAGNET AC MOTORS; RARE EARTH MAGNET; RARE-EARTH MAGNET MATERIALS;

PERMANENT MAGNETS;

EID: 80053537487     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2157103     Document Type: Article

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