Although the induction motor and the synchronous motor have been developed as different machines, yet they belong to a class of alternating current motors having many common points, such as the same synchronous speed and similar magnetizing characteristic. The induction motor is superior in its starting characteristics, while the synchronous motor excels the former in its operating characteristics. Thus the combination of both characteristics in a motor is desirable, and has been partially realized by adding squirrel cage winding of certain design to the sync' ronous motor, by which the scope of its application has been extended to the present stage.
On the other hand, the same have been tried by synchronizing the induction motor and converting it into the synchronous motor at running condition; but the necessty of manual operation by the transition seems to have been the main point limiting the field of practical application.
The author, by the assistance of Mr. M. Kawarada, succeeded in making the transition from the induction into the synchronous motor perfectly automatic by the proper use of D. C. series machine as the exciter, in which the building-up of D. C. voltage was controlled to be timely. Besides, by providing high resistance squirrel cages, which act as wedges at once, the torque speed characteristic as induction motor is made substantially equal to that of Boucherot's doub e squirrel cage type.
By these, the induction synchronous motor in question can start with full load torque by the mere switching and run up to its synchronous speed by its own accord, exerting pull-in torque not less than full load torque.
The experiments made on 75 H. P. motor of such design are described with special reference to the oscillographic records of stator and rotor currents showing how the transition is natural.
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