Cradle for an electric machine, and associated transmission system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10615664-B2
Application number	US-201615545364-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 20, 2016
Priority date	Jan 21, 2015
Publication date	Apr 7, 2020
Grant date	Apr 7, 2020

Abstract

A cradle for an electric machine comprises a frame delimiting a seat for receiving part of the machine and extending in a vertical direction and comprising a lower edge and an upper edge, the lower edge being intended for connection to a support.
The upper edge comprises one or two receiving seats able to receive a respective bearing and comprising a base wall and two side walls.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cradle for an electric machine having a stator, a transmission shaft; a rotor connected to the shaft; two bearings of a flange mount type for supporting the transmission shaft, the cradle comprising: a frame delimiting a seat for receiving part of the machine, the frame extending in a vertical direction and comprising a lower edge and an upper edge, the lower edge being intended for connection to a support, wherein the upper edge comprises one or two receiving seats, each receiving seat being able to receive a respective bearing and comprising a base wall and two side walls, and wherein that the frame comprises two longitudinal flanks extending substantially in a longitudinal direction, two transverse flanks extending substantially in a transverse direction and an additional flank extending obliquely with respect to the longitudinal and transverse directions and mechanically connecting one of the longitudinal flanks and one of a corresponding transverse flank of the two transverse flanks.

2. The cradle as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising, for at least one receiving seat, two side walls protruding with respect to the upper edge of the frame in the vertical direction.

3. The cradle as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising at least one removable bearing support, which is fixed in the seat and on which the bearing is fixed, said bearing support being suitable for increasing the rigidity of the bearings in the axial direction and for disassembling or assembling the rotor in the electric machine in the axial direction without contact with the cradle, and in that the bearing support also comprises at least one vertical rib having a concave upper edge able to receive a mounting flange of the bearing, the vertical rib being in abutment against or fixed to the base wall and extending transversely in a transverse direction between two side walls fixed to the side walls of the cradle.

4. The cradle as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising at least one seat comprising a vertical rib having a concave upper edge suitable for receiving a mounting flange of the bearing, the vertical rib extending vertically from the base wall and transversely in a transverse direction between the side walls.

5. The cradle as claimed in claim 4 , wherein at least one seat comprises oblique ribs extending in the longitudinal direction from one side or from either side of the vertical rib, and obliquely with respect to the transverse and vertical directions between the base wall and the side walls.

6. The cradle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a height of each side wall in the vertical direction is equal to at least a fifth of a height of the frame in the vertical direction.

7. The cradle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the frame comprises four additional flanks and is octagonal in a section in a plane perpendicular to the vertical direction.

8. The cradle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the frame also comprises vertical reinforcement ribs extending in the vertical direction between the lower edge and the upper edge.

9. A transmission system comprising
an electric machine comprising a stator, a transmission shaft, a rotor connected to the shaft, and two bearings of a flange mount type for supporting the transmission shaft, and
a cradle able to receive said machine comprising a frame delimiting a seat for receiving part of the machine, the frame extending in a vertical direction and comprising a lower edge and an upper edge, the lower edge being intended for connection to a support, wherein the upper edge comprises one or two receiving seats, each receiving seat being able to receive a respective bearing and comprising a base wall and two side walls, and wherein the frame comprises two longitudinal flanks extending substantially in a longitudinal direction two transverse flanks extending substantially in a transverse direction and mechanically connected to the longitudinal flanks and an additional flank extending obliquely with respect to the longitudinal and transverse directions and mechanically connecting one of the longitudinal flanks and one of a corresponding transverse flank of the two transverse flanks.

Assignees

• Ge Energy Power Conversion Technology Ltd

Inventors

• Ourion Emilie
• Roche Fabien

Classifications

• H02K5/24 Primary

  specially adapted for suppression or reduction of noise or vibrations · CPC title

• H02K17/16

  having rotors with internally short-circuited windings, e.g. cage rotors · CPC title

• H02K5/161

  radially supporting the rotary shaft at both ends of the rotor (H02K5/165, H02K5/167, H02K5/173 take precedence) · CPC title

• H02K1/185

  to outer stators · CPC title

• H02K7/14

  Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans (with fan or impeller for cooling the machine H02K9/06) · CPC title