Vernier Motor and Its Design

Abstract

A vernier motor is an unexcited inductor synchronous motor in which a small displacement of the rotor produces a large displacement of the axes of permeance. It runs at a slow speed as if it were geared down from the speed of the rotating field set up by the stator. To design a vernier motor is equivalent to designing a polyphase reluctance motor with an odd-shaped rotor so that the airgap permeance distribution is a displaced triangular wave.