Glossary of Motor Terms
Concentric winding
This is a style of winding in a revolving field motor that makes the field of each phase as sinusoidal as possible. This can be seen in fig. (a), where two or more coils are arranged in symmetry. Fig. (b) shows an example of a two phase motor employing concentric winding.
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