Asymmetric Mover Design for Mitigating Detent Force and Thrust Ripple of Spoke-Type Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Machine
摘要
This paper presents a spoke-type permanent magnet linear synchronous machine (PMLSM) with an asymmetric mover structure designed to reduce detent force and thrust ripple. The proposed design incorporates three techniques: an asymmetric magnet arrangement to induce harmonic phase cancellation, magnet skewing for spatial harmonic suppression, and a magnet overhang structure to compensate for thrust reduction. The proposed design was applied to two pole-slot combinations, 6-pole/9-slot and 12-pole/9-slot, for performance comparison under identical operating conditions. The electromagnetic performance of the proposed mover was evaluated in detail using a three-dimensional finite element method (3D FEM) analysis. The results show that, for the 6-pole/9-slot model, the detent force and thrust ripple were reduced by 92.17% and 82.87%, respectively, compared with the symmetric baseline model, while for the 12-pole/9-slot model, the reductions were 92.11% and 91.5%, respectively. In both cases, the average thrust was maintained at a level comparable to that of the symmetric baseline model.