Patent ID: 7999430

Claim:
A complementary permanent magnet structure capable of minimizing the cogging torque for a rotating electric machine, the complementary permanent magnet structure comprising: a magnetic pole core being cylinder shaped with even numbered arc-shaped magnetic sets positioned with equal distances on the circumference thereof, each magnetic set being composed of a first permanent magnet unit and a second permanent magnet unit; and an armature core being ring shaped with a plurality of slots; wherein the ratio of the number of the slots to the number of magnetic poles of the magnetic pole core is 3/2; wherein the first permanent magnet unit and the second permanent magnet unit are positioned correspondingly to generate two complementary cogging torques with 180 degrees of electrical angle difference so that the cogging torques are counterbalanced by adjusting the shapes and the sizes of the first permanent magnet unit and the second permanent magnet unit; and wherein the dimension parallel to the axis of rotation of the first permanent magnet unit is greater than the dimension parallel to the axis of rotation of the second permanent magnet unit, and the width of the first permanent magnet unit is less than the second permanent magnet unit.