IMT’s axial flux motors provide the following advantages:

	High torque from zero speed
	High efficiency throughout speed range
	Smaller size
	Lower cost in volume than competing technology

Applications

The unique design of the motor makes it suitable for use in electric bicycles, air conditioners, air handling devices including fans, non-road electric vehicles and a number of other electrical appliances.

IMT has already demonstrated the motor in applications including high efficiency ceiling fans, evaporative air conditioners, electric bicycles, road scooters, tidal turbines and electric vehicles.

Technology

The IMT motor is a single sided axial flux permanent magnet (PM) brushless motor with a
slotted iron stator.

	Axial flux motors are disc shaped, rather than the more commonly available drum shape that is typical of radial flux motors.
	The disc shape is the result of the stator and rotor being placed adjacent to each other rather than the rotor spinning inside the stator cylinder.
	Axial flux motors are usually described by industry as axial air gap or "pancake" motors.
	Increased availability and reduced cost of both power electronics and magnetically strong materials (such as neodymium iron boron) has enabled the development of the IMT motor design.
	The combination of these technical advances allows dramatic improvements in efficiency (particularly of small machines) and/or variable speed drives that remove the need for geared transmissions in some applications.