SUMMARYThis paper presents new block diagrams for induction and synchronous motors with stator core losses such as eddy-current and hysteresis losses. The proposed block diagrams succeed in realizing simple and clear configurations with physically meaningful vector signals, which are helpful for understanding motor electromagnetic mechanism and useful for designing controllers for them. Vector signals, which are defined in the general reference frame, are utilized as transfer signals between blocks. The proposed vector-signal block diagram in the frame can be directly and easily reduced to the one in such a specific frame as stationary or synchronous frame simply by adding certain constraints to it. Shown are three configurations for induction motor, two for synchronous motors including permanent magnet cylindrical motor, permanent magnet salient-pole motor, and reluctance motor. © 2001 Scripta Technica, Electr Eng Jpn, 138(2): 5970, 2002