This paper investigates reduction of cogging torque and acoustic noise in p
ermanent magnet motors with larger stator slot opening. Using energy method
with Fourier series expansion, cogging torque is analytically determined w
ith airgap MMF function and airgap permeance function. It shows that there
exist several tooth widths which minimize the cogging torque. It also propo
ses a teeth pairing with two different types of tooth width which can effec
tively reduce the cogging torque and thus the acoustic noise, Experimental
results show that the proposed teeth pairing reduces the cogging torque by
85% and the acoustic noise by 3.1 dB.