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The general form of an inner-rotor brushless permanent magnet motor is shown in Figure 2.12.<br />

The rotor and stator are constructed of laminated electrical steel with a solid shaft. Two magnets<br />

encircle the rotor steel. The magnets are radially magnetized (they have magnetic domains<br />

aligned in a radial fashion) such that the flux density in the airgap is constant over the face of the<br />

magnet. Obviously, the North and South magnets cannot exist as monopoles; the convention used<br />

here is that the magnet is labeled with polarity of the flux entering the airgap (for example, the<br />

magnet labeled N has the North pole facing the airgap and the South pole facing the rotor steel).<br />

Likewise, flux traveling from the rotor to the stator is considered positive and therefore the flux<br />

density is also positive. Finally, the and represent the direction of armature winding; its<br />

definition is deferred until later. For now simply note that when current flows in the directions<br />

indicated, positive flux will be generated in the direction of the magnetic axis μ per the right-hand<br />

rule.<br />

Figure 2.12 – Section view of a general brushless PM motor.<br />

The magnets on the rotor push flux across the airgap and through the rotor and stator following<br />

the general flux paths shown in the figure; this defines a magnetic circuit. Again, analysis of this<br />

magnetic circuit requires that the space distributions be accounted for. However, since the<br />

reluctance of all flux paths are the same (that is, the machine is nonsalient) we can examine the<br />

magnetic circuit in terms of total flux by aligning the rotor with the magnetic axis of the stator as<br />

shown. Later the spatial dependency can be introduced to develop the simplest possible electrical<br />

model. Similarly, in the figure discussed below the rotor flux cannot ever attain the shape shown<br />

because of rotor flux leakage but all practical rotors will produce a flux density with quarterwave<br />

symmetry. Thus the results derived here apply to the peak of any waveform that exists in practice.<br />

Given the assumptions presented earlier, the lines of flux are nearly perpendicular to the steel<br />

surfaces (they are radial in the airgap) so long as the stator slotting is ignored (as it is in the<br />

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