Development of Interior Permanent Magnet Motors Reducing Harmonic Iron Losses under Field Weakening Control

Abstract

In this paper, we present the development of interior magnet motors reducing iron loss at high rotational speed under the flux weakening control. The rotor core and magnet shapes are determined by the automatic numerical calculation using combination of the optimization method and the adaptive finite element method. The optimized motor is manufactured to proof the effectiveness by the measurement of the iron loss. Both results of the calculation and the measurement indicate that the iron loss of the proposed motor at the high rotational speed under the flux weakening control is reduced as half compared with the initial rotor shape while the torque is nearly constant.