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Transverse flux machines can achieve high force density by reducing the pole pitch because of the decoupling of electric and magnetic loadings. But the main flux linkage interlinking with the armature coils will decrease as the pole pitch reduces, resulting in motor performance degradation. Unlike the approaches adopted by many literatures to suppress the leakage flux, this article proposes a novel dual-consequent-pole transverse flux linear machine by adopting dual-PM structure. Without increasing the occupied volume, the coil flux linkage is enhanced and the force density can be further improved. At first, the basic configuration and operation principle are introduced at first. Then the leading parameter influence on the force density is investigated. The electromagnetic performance of the proposed machine is investigated by three-dimensional finite element analysis and is compared with its counterparts. The field distribution, winding flux linkage, back electromotive force, detent force, and thrust force are emphasized as well as the efficiency and power factor. Finally, a prototype machine is constructed and tested to validate the theoretical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, a novel dual-consequent-pole transverse flux motor and its analytical model are proposed. Differ from existed transverse flux machines, the proposed motor owns core-tooth-to-magnet types of the consequent-pole configuration on both stator and rotor. This unique motor configuration improves the no-load permanent magnet flux linkage interlinking with armature winding, thus leading to an enhanced torque density. The structure and working principle of the proposed motor are introduced as the first half part. Then, based on the combination of equivalent magnetic circuit method and subdomain method, an analytical modeling method is proposed to estimate the electromagnetic performance of the proposed motor. The parameters of the equivalent magnetic circuit model, e.g., the magnetomotive force and reluctances are calculated based on the subdomain model technique, considering the influence of the cores’ saturation and the axial end effect during calculation. Based on the magnetic field distribution result, the electromagnetic performance is estimated. The analytical results are verified by both the finite-element method and the prototype experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a dual-consequent-pole transverse flux motor and its electromagnetic design method are proposed. Both the stator and rotor of the proposed motor are designed to own the consequent-pole configurations. The unique motor structure improves the space utilization and the torque density. Firstly, the detailed structure and principle are introduced, and the development of the torque density of the proposed motor is discussed. Secondly, the electromagnetic design method's theory, considerations and flow process are listed. Then, the selections of some main structure parameters are proposed (e.g., pole-pitch, thickness of PMs and pole-arc coefficients of PMs). The electromagnetic performances of the proposed motor are compared with the existed transverse flux machines. At last, a prototype is manufactured and some primary experiments are done to verify and evaluate the proposed motor topology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a transverse-flux flux-reversal linear motor (TF-FRLM) is proposed. With magnets on the primary side, the proposed motor is suitable for long-stroke application, benefiting from easy manufacturing and low-cost secondary cores. First, the basic structure and operating principle of the proposed motor are presented. Then, the expressions of back electromotive force (EMF) and electromagnetic thrust are obtained by an equivalent magnetic circuit model. Third, for saving computation time, a simplified half-phase model with a symmetry boundary is employed in the 3-D finite-element analysis (FEA) to investigate the TF-FRLM, and the field distribution, the back EMF, the detent force, as well as the thrust force are emphasized. Finally, a prototype is constructed, and experiments show good agreement with the FEA results. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Transverse flux motors are of great interest in the low-speed high-torque direct-drive applications. In this paper, a novel transverse-flux flux-reversal motor structure is presented, which is more suitable than conventional transverse-flux motors when cost and torque density are both considered. The basic structure and operating principle are introduced. The three-dimensional (3-D) equivalent magnetic circuit model is established to obtain the expression of electromagnetic torque. A 3-D finite element model is built to analyze the influence of structure parameters on the torque density. A prototype is designed and manufactured based on the analysis result of finite element method (FEM), the experiments of no-load back-electromotive force and load torque are carried out. The experimental results agree with the results of FEM, which verifies the accuracy of FEM analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]