The small precision brushless DC motors in the high value-added products including the visible home appliances such as the projection TV and the projector require not only the energy conversion devices but also high efficiency, low vibration and sound...
The small precision brushless DC motors in the high value-added products including the visible home appliances such as the projection TV and the projector require not only the energy conversion devices but also high efficiency, low vibration and sound operation. However, the brushless DC motors using the conventional ball bearing have following problems: the vibration by the cogging torque and the short motor life cycle by the ball's abrasion. Also, the brushless DC motors using the fluid dynamic bearing are restrictively used because of the high power consumption by high viscosity lubrication oil and the leakage of oil, and so on.
In this dissertation, it is proposed that new coreless brushless DC motor with an air dynamic bearing is suitable for the motor to drive the color wheel of the digital lightening processor in the visible home appliances. The proposed coreless brushless DC motor has three advantages: First, it has low vibration and sound since there is no cogging torque. Second, it has low power consumption because the air dynamic bearing with lower viscosity air has small friction loss. Third, it has permanent life cycle that there is no air leakage.
The proposed coreless brushless DC motor is composed of the air dynamic bearing with the radial force, the magnetic bearing with the axial force, and the electromagnetic field part occurring the rotation force. The electromagnetic field part is designed by the voltage equations considering the inverter switching modes and the finite element analysis of the electromagnetic field coupled with the Maxwell equations. The three dimensional electromagnetic field analysis is designed for magnetic bearing. The air dynamic bearing is solved by the finite element analysis of the mechanical field with the Reynolds equations. The design of the proposed coreless brushless DC motor is implemented by the finite element analysis based on the radial force, the friction loss, the unbalanced electromagnetic force, and the load torque caused by the eccentricity of the air dynamic bearing and the unbalance of the air gap when the motors fabricated in error.
The prototype of the newly proposed coreless brushless DC motor is manufactured, and experiment results show the vibration, sound, and phase current at no load and color wheel load of the motors in comparison.
The high performance characteristics with the low vibration, the low acoustic noise and the low power consumption are verified by the experimental results, and the feasibility of the proposed coreless brushless DC motor using an air dynamic bearing implemented by the finite element analysis is exemplified for the motors to drive the color wheel of the digital lightening processor via the experiments.