IP Library Granted Patent US 9,293,952
Granted Patent B2
US 9,293,952 · App. 13/849,760 · Granted Mar 22, 2016

Wound field flux switching machine with sinusoidal back electromotive force

Inventor: David C. Meeker (Natick, MA)
Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.
H02K1/165H02K19/103H02K19/20H02K19/24H02K2201/06
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Patent No.
US 9,293,952
App. No.
13/849,760
Granted
Mar 22, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wound field flux switching machine with a sinusoidal back electromotive force features a rotor with teeth and a stator with groups of teeth wherein each group has a field winding and each tooth has a phase winding.

Claims (28)

1. A machine comprising:

a rotor with teeth;

a stator with groups of teeth, each group having a field winding, each tooth having a phase winding; and

rotor and stator teeth in adjacent groups configured to be out of phase, the rotor and stator teeth configured such that opposite teeth on the rotor are aligned with one another and aligned with the teeth of opposite stator teeth field winding groups and in an adjacent stator teeth field winding group no rotor tooth is aligned with said stator phase.

2. The machine of claim 1 in which the rotor and stator have an even number of teeth, the stator having more teeth than the rotor.

3. The machine of claim 2 in which the rotor has ten teeth and the stator has twelve teeth.

4. The machine of claim 2 in which each stator group has three teeth with four said groups.

5. The machine of claim 1 in which the rotor teeth are wider that the stator teeth.

6. The machine of claim 1 in which the equal spacing between adjacent suitor teeth in a group is equal and the spacing between adjacent groups is equal but greater than the spacing between stator teeth in a group.

7. The machine of claim 1 in which the rotor teeth are skewed.

8. A machine comprising:

a rotor with ten teeth;

a stator with twelve teeth having a 24° pitch arranged in groups, each group having a field winding, and each tooth having a phase winding;

the rotor and stator teeth configured such that in a stator teeth field winding group a rotor tooth is aligned with a stator phase and an adjacent stator teeth field winding group no rotor tooth is aligned with said stator phase; and

the pitch between stator teeth in adjacent groups being larger than 24°.

9. The machine of claim 8 in which each stator group has three teeth with four said groups.

10. The machine of claim 8 in which the rotor teeth are wider than the stator teeth.

11. The machine of claim 8 in which the rotor teeth are skewed.

12. A machine comprising:

a rotor with teeth;

a stator with groups of teeth, each group having a field winding, each tooth having a phase winding;

the spacing between each group of stator teeth being equal and being greater than an equal spacing between adjacent stator teeth in a group; and

the rotor teeth configured for an out of phase relationship between rotor and stator teeth in adjacent groups, the rotor and stator teeth configured such that in a stator teeth field winding group a rotor tooth is aligned with stator phase and in an adjacent stator teeth field winding group no portion of a rotor tooth is aligned with said stator phase.

13. The machine of claim 12 in which the rotor and stator have an even number of teeth, the stator having more teeth than the rotor.

14. The machine of claim 13 in which the rotor has ten teeth and the stator has twelve teeth.

15. The machine of claim 12 in which each stator group has three teeth with four said groups.

16. The machine of claim 12 in which the rotor teeth are wider that the stator teeth.

17. The machine of claim 12 in which the rotor teeth are skewed.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 19, 2023
From: FOSTER-MILLER, INC.
To: C07 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 065912/0298 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 2, 2014
From: QINETIQ NORTH AMERICA, INC.
To: FOSTER-MILLER, INC.
Reel/Frame 032807/0348 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Nov 8, 2013
From: QINETIQ NORTH AMERICA, INC.
To: QINETIQ NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Reel/Frame 031635/0496 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 25, 2013
From: MEEKER, DAVID C.
To: QINETIQ NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Reel/Frame 030077/0205 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61722282 · Nov 5, 2012
Related Publication 20140125156A1 · May 8, 2014