Novel Topology of Unequal Air Gap in a Single-Phase Brushless DC Motor

Abstract

Most single-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motors have unequal air gaps to eliminate the dead point where the developed torque value is zero. These unequal air gaps deteriorate the motor characteristics in cogging torque. Thus in this paper a new topology of the unequal air gaps is proposed to solve this problem. As a result, it is proved by the finite element analysis and experimental results that the proposed air gap topology is very effective in reducing the cogging torque.