Recent Advances of Reluctance Torque Assisted Motors

Abstract

The history of motor technology began with the discovery of electromagnetic induction by Faraday Various kinds of motors were developed by the recent progress of the fundamental technology (magnetic structure, magnetic material, drive circuit, control method). Especially, motors using the reluctancc torque have many advantages and some of them are used as high efficient motors. This paper overviews recent advances of reluctance torque assisted motors such as Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM), Synchronous Reluctance Motor (SynRM) and Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (IPMSM). © 2003, The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. All rights reserved.