2001 – 2002 Worldwide Road Show

Scott Stanton, Senior Application Engineer

 Motor & Drives Solutions
Contents:
- Motor solutions with RMxprt
- RMxprt coupling with Simplorer and SPICE
- Motor solutions with Maxwell 2D Transient
- Optimization in RMxprt
- Motor Solutions with Maxwell 3D
RMxprt - BLDC Motor Design
RMxprt Results
RMxprt to 2D Transient Link
 2D Transient Setup
Driving circuit

Phase windings

Control circuit
2D Transient Results
RMxprt link to Simplorer

Bring RMxprt model

icon into Simplorer
Simplorer Simulation Results

Phase currents
Torque

Source current
Drive System Model with IGBTs
& State Machine Control
Drive System Results
Torque

Phase currents
RMxprt Model of SRM
Model exported
to Maxwell SPICE
and Simplorer

Geometry exported
to Maxwell 2D
Simplorer Model and Results
Linear Induction Motors for
Large Transit Systems

Active Part of the Motor

Linear Induction Motor Example
Motor Description:
- 4 stator poles, 12 slots, 3 phases

Moving Stator Vacuum Band Background

A -C B -A C -B A -C B -A C -B Direction of linear motion

Stationary Back iron Stationary Aluminum plate

Phase Current Assignment
and Mesh Example

A -C B -A C -B A -C B -A C -B
 Calculation of
Electromachanical Quantities

Tangential Force Normal Force

Power loss Position

Magnetic Field Results
Induced currents in
aluminum plate
Flux lines distribution

Study of magnetic
saturation
Additional Magnetic Flux
Density Results
Graph of magnetic flux density
magnitude at fixed location

Spatial distribution
in air gap at fixed time
Maxwell 2D Transient Analysis
of Shaded Pole Motor
Shading pole turn setup

End-ring setup in the rotor

Shaded Pole Motor Results

Torque

Main winding current Shading poles currents

Optimization in RMxprt

Input variables

Output variables
RMxprt Parametrics /
Optimization Setup
RMxprt Parametrics
Results

Parametrics results

Nominal project results

 RMxprt Optimization
Results
Original

Optimized
Maxwell 3D Analysis of
Stepper Motor
Magnetic Field Results