Low core loss rotating flux transformer

Abstract

A rotating magnetic induction at saturation generates no hysteresis losses. In addition, because domain walls are absent, there are no anomalous eddy current losses. Thus, only classical eddy current losses are present. In materials with high resistivity such as ferrites or materials fabricated into thin sheets such as amorphous metals, these classical losses are small. A transformer has been designed which utilizes this principle. It consists of a hollow toroidal core with toroidal windings wrapped outside the core and poloidal windings wrapped through the interior channel. When these windings are energized by currents 90 electrical degrees apart or, with suitable winding schemes, by three-phase currents, rotating flux is generated throughout the core volume.