UW researchers have created a method for measuring the radial displacement of a rotor in an electric machine by using the stator coils themselves as sensors. This invention is based on a single wind...
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UW researchers have created a novel rotor hub structure that uses an airfoil or blade (similar to what is used in fans, compressors, or turbines) to enable self-cooling. In conventional rotor structur...
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UW researchers have discovered that a bearingless permanent magnet motors can be designed to operate in the field-weakening regime. They have found that the airgap length and permanent magnet thicknes...
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UW researchers a novel cooling method for radial flux machines using a heat exchanger, which is placed inside the radial cooling ducts, encircling stator slots, and featuring coolant flow in the circu...
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UW Madison researchers have developed a current-source inverter topology (H7-CSI-BD) combined with two new modulation schemes that have four-quadrant power flow, high power density, high efficiency, h...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a hybrid electric machine bearing system that uses both gas and electromagnetic shaft support. The windings of the electric motor are used to reduce the loading o...
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UW researchers invented a novel twin bearingless machine drive configuration that uses a reduced number of inverters. Twin bearingless machine configurations have two bearingless machines rated for ha...
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UW Madison researchers have developed a switching circuit for a balanced current source inverter (CSI). The balanced CSIs utilize wide-bandgap semiconductors to address electromagnetic interference (E...
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A permanent magnet synchronous motor includes a stator with a stator winding, a rotor with a rotor core rotatable relative to the stator, and a magnetic structure with at least one permanent magnet mo...
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A variable magnetization machine controller has a current command module, a magnetization module and a reducing current module. The current command module computes a vector current command in a dq axi...
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A variable magnetization machine controller including a hysteresis control component configured to receive an ideal magnetization state signal, output an actual magnetization signal based on the ideal...
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An improved system for measuring current within a power semiconductor module is disclosed, where the system is integrated within the power module. The system includes a point field detector sensing a ...
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A variable magnetization machine control system comprising a controller configured to generate a reversely rotating d-axis/q-axis current vector trajectory during a change in a magnetization state of ...
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A variable magnetization machine control system comprising a controller configured to adjust a d-axis current waveform and a q-axis current waveform in accordance with an operating condition of a vari...
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A permanent magnet synchronous motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a magnetic structure with a low coercive force magnet and a high coercive force magnet that are ar...
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A magnetization state control method for a variable magnetization machine, the method includes generating a flux linkage vector while changing a magnetization state of the variable magnetization machi...
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An electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, and a winding. The rotor includes a rotor core and blades extending from the rotor core. Each blade is curved in an axial direction along the rotor core...
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A controller for a power convertor includes: a torque command value calculation module to calculate a first torque command value to a power convertor; a torque command limit module to receive the firs...
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A bearing-less flywheel both exchanges energy with a rotating flywheel using a regenerative controller via a rotating electrostatic field but also suspends the flywheel with an electrostatic field to ...
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A controller includes a torque command value calculation module configured to calculate a torque command based on a speed command of the motor, an output voltage controlling module configured to contr...
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An electrostatic rotating electrical machine employs axially extending electrically conductive electrodes on a rotor interacting with a corresponding set of axially extending electrodes on a stator, w...
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A variable speed drive for an electrostatic motor provides feedback control by conversion of measured current phases provided to the motor into a vector in a rotating rotor framework. This vector is u...
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A power converter provides a pyramidal structure of switches communicating between a capacitive divider at the base of the pyramid and a terminal at the top of the pyramid to provide a transformation ...
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A system for power transfer to a movable platform makes use of a capacitive interface in moving elements of load-supporting bearings for power transfer. Tank circuits associated with each bearing incr...
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An electric machine includes a rotor, permanent magnets, a stator, and a stator winding wound about a plurality of teeth to form a number of stator magnetic poles. The rotor includes a rotor core and ...
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