Type of elevator motor

Depending on Gear system:

1.Gear Motors
2.Gear Less Motors

Depending of Electrical Input:

1.DC Motors
2.Universal Motors
3.AC Motors
 Gear Traction Motors

• Gear motors are complete motive force systems consisting of an

electric motor and a reduction gear.
• The reduction gear trains used in gear motors are designed to reduce
the output speed while increasing the torque.
• Reduction gears consist of a small gear driving a larger gear.
• It reduces the complexity and cost of designing and constructing
power tools.
• Gear motors allow the use of economical low-horsepower motors to
provide great motive force at low speed.
Internal view of gear motors
 Gearless Traction Motors
• Gears are not used to transfer power from motor to drive sheave.
• Gearless traction motors work in the same way as geared motors
except that the drive sheave is directly attached to the end of a
motor.
• The hoist ropes are attached to the top of the elevator and wrapped
around the drive sheave while the other ends of the ropes are
attached to a counterweight that moves up and down in the hoistway.
• The combined weight of the elevator car and the counterweight
presses the ropes into the drive sheave grooves, providing the
necessary traction as the sheave turns.
Gearless Traction Motors
 Classification on the basis of Electrical Input
• Direct-current motors with series field windings are the oldest type
of traction motors. These provide a speed-torque characteristic useful
for propulsion, providing high torque at lower speeds for acceleration
of the vehicle, and declining torque as speed increases.
• The universal motor is a type of electric motor that can operate on
either AC or DC power and uses an electromagnet as its stator to
create its magnetic field. Universal motors have high starting torque,
can run at high speed, and are lightweight and compact.
• AC motors may be synchronous or asynchronous (induction). In both
cases, the AC from the power supply is fed directly into the stator
windings.