Permanent-magnet excited synchronous motor

[0001] The invention relates to a permanent-magnet excited synchronous with tooth coils in a stator and with a rotor.

[0002] Permanent-magnet excited synchronous motors of a type involved here experience torque oscillations. A skew of the rotor or stator by a slot pitch, as described, for example, for conventional motors in EP 0 545 060 B1, cannot be used in electric motors with concentric winding, i.e., tooth coils and a small number of slots, because this would exceedingly reduce the torque.

[0003] In electric motors with conventional windings, i.e., windings fabricated in drawing technique and with a relatively large slot number, a skew of approximately one slot pitch is typically applied.

[0004] Attempts have been made to reduce torque oscillations in electric motors with tooth coils by constructing the magnets in a particular shape. A disadvantage associated therewith is however the increase in manufacturing costs to construct magnets with a particular shape.

[0005] The invention is therefore based on the object to provide an electric synchronous motor which is tailored to dampen or eliminate relevant harmonics in a simple manner so as to reduce torque oscillations or torque ripple.

[0006] The posed object is attained by a permanent magnet excited synchronous motor having tooth coils in the stator, and a rotor with structural means to dampen the fifth harmonic and/or the seventh harmonic of the rotor field.

[0007] The tooth coils form hereby at least a portion of a winding system of the permanent magnet excited synchronous motor, wherein the tooth coils have each only a single mechanical pole, i.e., a single tooth.

[0008] By applying a skew of half a slot pitch 0.5×Tn or a skew of ⅗×Tn, the fifth harmonic of the rotor field is completely eliminated. Tn hereby refers to a slot pitch.

[0009] A skew of 3/7×Tn eliminates the seventh harmonic of the rotor field.

[0010] Combining the skew of 60% of a slot pitch Tn with a pole coverage of 85% completely dampens or eliminates both the fifth and the seventh harmonic.

[0011] Combining the skew of 3/7×Tn with a pole coverage of approximately 80% also completely dampens or eliminates both the fifth and the seventh harmonic. Likewise, a pole coverage of 80%±10% also sufficiently dampens the fifth harmonic.

[0012] It is not required to apply the skew only to the rotor or only to stator; the effect of the skew, for example one half of a slot pitch, can be apportioned to the stator and rotor. For example, the stator can then assume half of the half slot pitch, and the rotor the remaining portion of the skew, to realize the desired skew.

[0013] Other advantageous features of the invention will now be described with reference to an exemplified embodiment schematically depicted in the accompanying drawing in more detail. It is shown in:

[0014] FIG. 1 a basic illustration of a machine according to the invention;

[0015] FIG. 2 a revolving magnetic field of an electric machine;

[0016] FIG. 3 a perspective view of a rotor according to the invention.

[0017] FIG. 1 shows a basic lamination piece of a permanent-magnet excited synchronous motor 1 with a stator 2 and a rotor 4. The number of pole pairs corresponds to one-third of the number of slots 3 of the stator 2. The number of teeth 8 is a multiple of 3, i.e., the phase number of the stator 2, and is suitably greater than or equal to nine. The stator 2 is made of laminated metal sheets which have slots 3 for insertion of the windings. The windings are, in particular, tooth coils 6, i.e., a tooth coil 6 includes only a single tooth 8. The rotor 4 is constructed of permanent magnets 5, which can be made of thin plates, rings or cup-shaped magnets. The permanent magnets 5 are magnetized or arranged in axial direction of the rotor 4 such as to provide the desired skew.

[0018] Such a rotor 4 generates in the air gap a revolving magnetic field shown in FIG. 2, which has the following course. Pole gaps are located between the poles. Tp is the pole pitch and a is the pole coverage factor which is typically in a range between 0.8 and 0.95. The smaller the pole coverage a, the smaller the torque produced by the synchronous motor. α=1 cannot be attained due to manufacturing constraints.

[0019] The basic revolving magnetic field shown in FIG. 2 has harmonics in addition to the fundamental wave. The fifth and seventh order harmonics are mainly relevant for the torque oscillations, which need to be damped or, if possible, eliminated completely. The height of these harmonics essentially depends on the pole coverage α.

[0020] The torque oscillations can be damped by applying a skew to the rotor 4 and/or the stator 2. One measure for the skew is the skew angle 7 depicted in FIG. 3. Based on the skew angle 7, a skew factor can be defined which determines the damping of the various harmonics of the field in the air gap field. The skew of the stator 2 can optionally be obtained by a skewed arrangement of the slots 3 of the stator 2 in relation to the shaft 9.

[0021] According to the invention, the fundamental wave which generates the torque is only slightly damped while the relevant harmonics five and seven are eliminated. Both harmonics cause torque oscillations of the order 6p, i.e., 6p times the rotation frequency, wherein p is the number of pole pairs. An effective solution for preventing these torque oscillations is realized by applying a skew of half a slot pitch, i.e., Tn/2. The fifth harmonic is hereby damped to 19% and the seventh harmonic to 13.6%. At the same time, the most relevant cogging torque at twice the slot frequency is damped.

[0022] The fifth harmonic is =0, when a pole coverage is α=0.8 or at least approximates 0.8. Then, only the seventh harmonic needs to be damped by the skew. This is achieved by making the skew smaller than half the slot pitch, namely exactly 3/7×Tn or 0.4285 Tn.

[0023] At a typical pole coverage of α=0.85 or approximately 0.85 to 0.9, it is beneficial to damped in particular the fifth harmonic, so that the skew must be greater than half a slot pitch, namely ⅗×Tn. This skew results in a complete elimination of the fifth harmonic. The skew can be implemented in the rotor 4 as well as in the stator 2. Moreover, it is possible to apportion the required skew over the entire synchronous motor, i.e., both the rotor 4 and the stator 2 are provided with certain predeterminable portions of the overall required skew, so that the skews add up in the air gap and thus the same effect can be realized as if applying the skew only on the rotor 4 or the stator 2.