An improved Two-phase Modular Switched Reluctance Motor with Segmented Stator

in this paper, an improved modular switched reluctance motor (SRM) is proposed with permanent magnets (PMs), located in stator yoke. This motor is a two-phase 8/10 SRM. Its stator consists of two E-Cores and two T-Cores, which are in staggered arrangement. The three poles of each E-Core are featured by one common pole in the middle and two excitation poles on the sides. Each T-Core is characterized by one common pole with two permanent magnets in two side stator yokes. All common poles have no windings. In order to analyze proposed motor, its feature is comprehensively introduced. For better illustrating the characteristic and improvements, it is compared with conventional SRM with the same sizes by means of finite element simulation. Some parameters such as average torque, output power and efficiency are compared. It is shown that proposed motor has better performances. Finally, experimental verification is performed to validate design and operation of proposed motor.