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There is significant
commercial need for the
new E225 SEMA motor.
This proposal uses the
E225 as the baseline
for performance and
reduction in cost.
OAK RrIGE NATIONAL LABORATORYSince the time of the initial CARAT proposal submittal, several companies
have expressed interest in employing the resulting motor and controller in com-
mercial products. Two of these companies have committed to providing cost share
in order to facilitate the development. One of these companies is a first-tier auto-
motive supplier developing a revolutionary new family of products requiring the
ultra-high system efficiency achievable by the Lynx/KAT motor and controller
technologies (known as Segmented ElectroMagnetic Array, or SEMA technology).
Another company requires the high efficiency, quiet operation, and control char-
acteristics afforded by the same basic motor and controller for an advanced air fil-
tration product. The combined annual production requirement projected by these
two companies exceeds one million units by 2005. In addition, several other lower-
volume users are expected to begin ordering motors in the near future. Other
potential high-volume users have also been identified. The performance specifi-
cations for this highly-marketable SEMA motor, designated the E225, are given in
Appendix A.
The combination of these needs for very similar motors and controls, along
with the maturity of the Lynx/KAT technology offers a rare opportunity for
rapid commercialization. As the DOE has been a significant sponsor of this tech-
nology, the Department of Energy should receive significant positive publicity for
its instrumental role in bringing this highly-efficient motor technology from the
laboratory into the marketplace. KAT could benefit from assistance from Oak
Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) in the area of power electronics design, and
had proposed that a portion of funding from a related SBIR be used to support that
work. This kind of collaboration would have strengthened the ties between a ma-
jor Federal Laboratory and a commercial consortium. Such collaboration would
have brought additional future benefit to the companies involved and to ORNL,
being another example of how industry involvement with the Federal Labs brings
about commercial success. Unfortunately, the related DOE SBIR was not funded.
The lack of this SBIR funding has significantly slowed the pace of SEMA develop-
ment as this CARAT effort has come to a close. KAT/Lynx commercial partners
were depending on DOE R&D funding to leverage their investment and help ease
the path toward commercialization. KAT/Lynx will look for other opportunities
for collaboration with the Department of Energy.
Significant private investment has been and will continue to be invested in or-
der to commercialize the Lynx/KAT motor technology. The majority of future pri-
vate investment will be spent in setting up the facilities needed for high-volume
production of motors and controls. There remain technical issues, however, that
need to be addressed to prepare the technology for cost-sensitive products, such
as those needed by the automotive industry. KAT/Lynx will continue to look for
R&D funding (both commercial and government) to perform these technical
tasks. Once these tasks are done, they will feed into privately-funded production
efforts. This has been the model followed throughout this CARAT effort, which
has had a high degree of "cost share" associated with it. This has shown the com-2
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Jr., Roy Kessinger; Seymour, Keith; Angal, Kanchan; Wolf, Jason; Brewer, Steve & Schrank, Leonard. Cost Effective, High Efficiency Integrated Systems Approach to Auxilliary Electric Motors, report, September 26, 2003; United States. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc734409/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.