Another type, for low load torque, has flats ground onto a conventional squirrel-cage rotor to create discrete poles.

A centrifugal mechanism, when close to running speed, connected all commutator bars together to create the equivalent of a squirrel-cage rotor.

An electric motor with a squirrel-cage rotor is termed a squirrel-cage motor.

With this design (which consists of a basic stator and squirrel-cage rotor), the fan's blades mount to a central hub, known as a flywheel.

A squirrel-cage rotor is the rotating part (rotor) used in the most common form of AC induction motor.

By 1896, General Electric and Westinghouse signed a cross-licensing agreement for the bar-winding-rotor design, later called the squirrel-cage rotor.

The squirrel-cage rotor asynchronous motor was invented by Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky in 1889 and they were being built industrially from 1891.

There are three types of induction motor rotors, which are squirrel-cage rotor, wound rotor and solid core rotor.

Rotor windings consist of short-circuited loops of conductors and are made in two types: the wound rotor and the squirrel-cage rotor.

What type of generator is suitable (synchronous or asynchronous) and what type of rotor (squirrel-cage rotor, wound rotor, salient pole rotor or cylindrical rotor)?

Compared to a squirrel-cage rotor, the rotor of the slip ring motor has more winding turns; the induced voltage is then higher, and the current lower, than for a squirrel-cage rotor.

If a conventional squirrel-cage rotor has flats ground on it to create salient poles and increase reluctance, it will start conventionally, but will run synchronously, although it can provide only a modest torque at synchronous speed.

The principal purpose of the squirrel-cage rotor winding or wound rotor winding of the induction motor or the rotating field winding of the field-excited synchronous electric machine is to develop a rotating magnetic field in the air gap.