Less Rare-Earth Electromagnetic Design for a High-Performance Permanent Magnet Motor

Abstract

This paper presents an electromagnetic design alternative using the so-called banana-shaped magnets, achieving magnet weight reduction of 21.82% for the same performance as the baseline motor in the case study. Typically, parallel magnetization is used in this topology because it provides the manufacturing advantage of not building a specific magnetizing device required to achieve radial magnetization. Therefore, as its main contribution, this paper proposes using tilted magnetization, demonstrating that the performance is better than the conventional way of applying parallel magnetization in banana-shaped motors but still using parallel magnetization. Because of the performance improvement for the same motor structure, magnet weight reduction is possible for a new design with the same performance as the baseline motor. In addition, this paper presents the workflow followed to obtain the less rare-earth design motor candidate using tilted magnetization.

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