A Novel 24-Slots/10-Poles Winding Topology for Electric Machines

The fractional slots tooth concentrated windings are characterized with high space MMF harmonics which results to undesirable effects on electric machine, such as localised core saturation, eddy current loss in the rotor and noise and vibration. A new and high efficiency method is presented in this paper to reduce simultaneously the sub- and high MMF harmonics of these winding types. The method is based on doubling the number of stator slots, using two identical winding systems connected in series and shifted to each other for a specific angle, using stator core with different tooth width and using different turns per coil for the neighbouring phase coils. With the proposed technique the unwanted sub- and high winding MMF harmonics can be reduced or completely canceled.