Design Studies Relating to the Brush less Doubly-Fed Automotive Alternator ' Redacted for Privacy

The alternators in today's automobiles are of the claw-pole or Lundell construction, which is a readily manufactured, low-cost derivative of the conventional rotating dc field synchronous generator. The efficiency of the Lundell system is low due to a complicated magnetic circuit of predominantly solid steel and a high windage rotor structure. As the number of electrical devices in a car increases, so does the demand on the generator system. The Lundell alternator is not able to meet the demands and numerous alternative systems are under investigation. This led to the development of the brushless doubly-fed alternator system with the advantages of regulation over a wide speed range, competitive system cost based on inexpensive machine construction, low rating controller, diode rectifier and robust, low maintenance configuration.

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