Glossary of Motor Terms
Construction of a DC motor
Bracket
Brush: Carries current to commutator through sliding contact. In the early days, brush-like parts made from metal or carbon were used.
Terminal
Shaft, output shaft
Bearing
Coils that make up the winding
Commutator: Carries current supplied by brushes to coils.
Armature: Generates rotating force when current flows in winding.
Stator: consists of field magnet and yoke in a DC motor.
Field magnet: Magnet that produces magnetic flux to generate torque
Yoke: Iron component that forms a magnetic circuit with the field magnet. In this motor, the housing serves as the yoke.
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