Abstract
New flux concentrated hybrid (HB) type radial and axial magnetic bearings are proposed in this paper. It is intended to use ferrite permanent magnet (PM) for producing high bias flux. For this purpose flux concentrated PM arrangement is used. The capability of proposed magnetic bearings is designed using commercial FEM code "ANSYS". The experimental setup is fabricated and tested. The results show high possibility with less expensive PMs. Especially axial magnetic bearing is very strong and has almost the same diameter of the radial bearing core which means easy for manufacturing and maintenance.
