Experiment and Analysis of Squirrel Cage Asynchronous Magnetic Coupling

Transmission performances of some squirrel cage magnetic couplings, which were different in magnet pole number, slot number, slot depth or slot area, were tested. Experimental results and analysis indicate that these parameters (magnet pole number, slot number, slot depth and slot area) all affect transmission performance of a squirrel cage magnetic coupling. In these factors, deep slot can not only increase slot area to improve a squirrel cage magnetic coupling’s transmission performance, but also can make skin effect on conducting bars more obvious to further improve the transmission performance. Therefore, slot depth affects transmission performance of a squirrel cage magnetic coupling greatly. The experimental results show that a deep slot squirrel cage magnetic coupling’s transmission performance is much better than a common one.