《Unbalanced Magnetic Pull Due to Asymmetry and Low-Level Static Rotor》.pdf

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS, VOL. 46, NO. 7, JULY 2010 2675 Unbalanced Magnetic Pull Due to Asymmetry and Low-Level Static Rotor Eccentricity in Fractional-Slot Brushless Permanent-Magnet Motors With Surface-Magnet and Consequent-Pole Rotors   David G. Dorrell , Mircea Popescu , and Dan M. Ionel School of Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Systems, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney NSW 2007, Australia Motor Design Ltd., Ellesmere, Shropshire, SY12 0EG, U.K. AO Smith Corp., Corporate Technology Center, Milwaukee, WI 53224 USA We report on an investigation into the unbalanced magnetic pull (UMP) in ferrite-magnet fractional-slot brushless permanent-magnet motors due to either magnetic asymmetry or static rotor eccentricity. We justify the work in terms of the establishment of total indicated runout (TIR) tolerance and use 10% eccentricity as the nominal tolerance. The UMP will generate force and vibration, which causes wear. We investigated several machines with different pole numbers, slot numbers, and winding arrangements. Some of the windings contain sub-harmonics, and we found these to be more susceptible to UMP when there is rotor eccentricity and also to produce vibrating UMP. We found that consequent rotor poles produce high UMP under centered and rotor eccentricity conditions. We conducted detailed finite-element studies to calculate the UMP. Index Terms—Brushless permanent-magnet motors, fractional slot, unbalanced magnetic pull. I. INTRODUCTION layouts for single- or double-layer windings. Ten percent static