Characteristic Analysis and Design of a Thomson Coil Actuator Using an Analytic Method and a Numerical Method

Author

Dong-Kuk Lim ; Dong-Kyun Woo ; Il-Woo Kim ; Dong-Kyu Shin ; Jong-Suk Ro ; Tae-Kyung Chung ; Hyun-Kyo Jung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

49

Issue

12

fYear

2013

fDate

Dec. 2013

Firstpage

5749

Lastpage

5755

Abstract

The Thomson coil actuator (TCA) is a useful switch due to its simple structure and rapid completion time. However, research on the TCA is not widely available. Research on the TCA has been focused on the basic working principles and the characteristic analysis of the TCA. To address these problems, an analysis method and a design method for the TCA are proposed in this paper. Concretely, the analysis and the design method using a numerical method and an analytical method are proposed in this paper. The critical design variables are inspected in detail in this research. The correctness of the proposed methods and the usefulness of the TCA for the high speed switch are verified through an experiment.

Keywords

circuit breakers; coils; electric actuators; numerical analysis; Thomson coil actuator; circuit breaker; design method; high speed switch; numerical method; Actuators; Aluminum; Coils; Force; Magnetic flux; Materials; Shafts; Electric machines; switches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2013.2272561

Filename

6557007