Brushless DC motor having reduced torque ripple for electric power steering
US5982067A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 20, 1996 |
| Grant date | Nov 9, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 20, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH02P2209/07
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A brushless DC motor has a permanent magnet rotor comprising p magnetic poles and a stator having an integer multiple of 6*p*n slots containing windings, n being a positive, non-zero integer, and the poles and slots being skewed by one slot pitch with respect to each other. The windings in the slots are electrically connected in two separate groups of three-phase windings with each group having three phase terminals, the windings of each group being distributed in phase belts occupying alternate sectors of 30 electrical degrees and the windings of the first group alternating with the windings of the second group. Since the trapezoidal back EMF voltage curve has a wider top it exhibits less droop, compared with an equivalent three-phase brushless DC motor of the prior art, over the 60 electrical degree period centered on maximum back EMF in which torque producing current is applied. In addition, the maxima of back EMF voltage across pairs of terminals in the two groups of three phase windings are 30 electrical degrees out of phase with each other, so that variations in back EMF voltage in the two groups tend to cancel each other as torque producing current is applied to both groups.…
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