The relationship between the non-linear phenomenon of “reluctance force” and the position dependency of the voice coil inductance was established in 1949 by Cunningham, who called it “magnetic attraction force.” This paper revisits Cunningham’s analysis and expands it into a generalized form that includes the frequency dependency and applies to coils with non-inductive (lossy) blocked-impedance. The paper also demonstrates that Cunningham’s force can be explained physically as a modulation of the force factor that again is directly linked to modulation of the flux of the coil. A verification based on both experiments and simulations is presented along discussions of the impact of force factor modulation for various motor topologies. Finally, it is shown that the popular L2R2 coil impedance model does not correctly predict the force unless the new analysis is applied.

Authors: Risbo, Lars; Agerkvist, Finn T.; Tinggaard, Carsten; Halvorsen, Morten; Putzeys, Bruno
Affiliations: Purifi, Hvalsoe, Denmark; Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark; PointSource Acoustics, Roskilde,(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 141 (September 2016) Paper Number: 9607
Publication Date: September 20, 2016 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Transducers
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