Glossary of Motor Terms
Circulating current
This term is used in two ways. One is the third harmonic current flowing in the three phase Δ connection as shown in (a), the other is the current flowing through the winding, including the diode and the inductance, when the switching element turns off as shown in (b).
Term List (C)
- Capacitor-run motor, Capacitor-start motor
- Carbon brush, Graphite brush, Metallic graphite brush
- Circulating current
- Coercive force, coercive intensity
- Cogging torque
- Commutation
- Commutator, Commutator segment
- Concave and Convex
- Concentrated winding
- Concentric winding
- Concentricity, Eccentricity
- Conductor
- Consequent pole
- Constant-power characteristics
- Construction of a DC motor
- Continuity of magnetic fields
- Cooling methods
- Copper machine, iron machine
- Core, Iron core, Laminated core, Lamination
- Coreless motor
- Coulomb friction
- Coupling,Rigid coupling
- Cylindrical motor