A New Coreless Axial Flux Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor With Sinusoidal Rotor Segments

Axial flux permanent magnet (AFPM) motors are frequently used in many applications. Axial gap coreless motors with surface-mounted magnets are the most noteworthy ones due to their potentially higher efficiency and smaller axial length. In this paper, a new spoke-type AFPM coreless disk motor with dual rotor and single stator is proposed with sinusoidal rotor segments. This new disk-type motor is an interior PM (IPM) motor with spoke-type rotor and variable air gap to obtain sinusoidal back Electro-Motive Force waveform. It is shown that it is possible to increase the air-gap flux density in the proposed new coreless AF-IPM motor and increase the torque output compared with the conventional surface-mounted AFPM motors.