Quantitative Comparison of Vernier Permanent-Magnet Motors with Interior Permanent-Magnet Motor for Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Christopher H. T. Lee, Matthew Angle, Krishan Kant Bhalla, Mohammad Qasim, Jie Mei, Sajjad Mohammadi, K. Lakshmi Varaha Iyer, Jasmin Jijina Sinkular and James L. Kirtley
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Christopher H. T. Lee: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Matthew Angle: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Krishan Kant Bhalla: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Mohammad Qasim: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Jie Mei: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Sajjad Mohammadi: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
K. Lakshmi Varaha Iyer: Magna International Inc., Troy, MI 48098, USA
Jasmin Jijina Sinkular: Magna International Inc., Troy, MI 48098, USA
James L. Kirtley: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-15

Abstract: In this paper, three Vernier permanent-magnet (VPM) motor, namely the inner-rotor VPM (IR-VPM) motor, the outer-rotor VPM (OR-VPM) motor and the OR consequent-pole VPM (OR-CP-VPM) motor are proposed for the hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) applications. Owing to employment of toroidal-winding arrangement, the OR-VPM and the OR-CP-VPM motors can enjoy better material utilization and easier manufacturing process than its IR-VPM counterpart. Meanwhile the OR-CP-VPM motor can utilize the consequent-pole topology to minimize flux leakage that exists in conventional design. With the support of finite element method (FEM), the motor performances among the VPM motors and the profound interior permanent-magnet (IPM) motor can be compared quantitatively.

Keywords: consequent-pole; hybrid electric vehicle (HEV); interior permanent-magnet motor; overlapping-winding; toroidal-winding; Vernier permanent-magnet (VPM) motor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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