Electric machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10615665-B2
Application number	US-201715816514-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 17, 2017
Priority date	Nov 21, 2016
Publication date	Apr 7, 2020
Grant date	Apr 7, 2020

Abstract

An electric machine, with a stator and a rotor. The rotor is provided with a sheet metal packet fixed to the rotor shaft of the electric machine having sheet metal plates stacked in the axial direction of the rotor. The sheet metal packet and at least one short-circuit ring arranged on an axial side of the sheet metal plate form at least one cooling channel for a cooling fluid which extends at least in sections in the radial direction of the rotor.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric machine, comprising:
a stator and a rotor, wherein the rotor has a sheet metal packet attached to a rotor shaft of the electric machine with sheet metal plates stacked in the axial direction of the rotor, wherein the sheet metal packet forms a first at least one cooling channel for a cooling fluid, wherein the first at least one cooling channel is formed in such a manner that a plurality of sheet metal plates are provided with at least one respective perforation in the axial direction of the rotor, wherein the first at least one cooling channel extends at least in sections in the radial direction of the rotor, wherein the section of the first at least one cooling channel extending in the radial direction of the rotor or at least one of these sections is formed by one of the perforations of the sheet metal plates, and
at least one short circuit ring arranged on an axial side of the sheet metal packet forms a second at least one cooling channel for a cooling fluid, which extends at least in sections in the radial direction of the rotor,
wherein the short circuit ring comprises at least two axially adjacent disks which delimit the second at least one cooling channel.

2. The electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling channel is delimited by at least two sheet metal plates of the sheet metal packet.

3. The electric machine according to claim 2 , wherein at least two of the sheet metal plates mutually differ with respect to the number and the form and the position and the orientation of at least parts of their perforations from each other, wherein the cooling channel is formed by perforations of these sheet metal plates.

4. The electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling channel extends from an internally arranged radially inner jacket surface of the sheet metal packet or of the short-circuit ring to an externally arranged outer jacket surface of the sheet metal packet or of the short-circuit ring.

5. The electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein a cooling fluid line extending in the axial direction is formed within the rotor shaft and between the rotor shaft and the sheet metal packet and within the sheet metal packet, by which the cooling fluid can be supplied to the cooling channel.

6. The electric machine according to claim 1 , further comprising a circulating device, by which the cooling fluid can be circulated through the cooling channel.

7. The electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein at least two cooling channels or groups of cooling channels are provided, through which cooling fluids that are mutually different from each other can be provided.

Assignees

• Audi Ag

Inventors

• Scharlach Albert

Classifications

• H02K17/16

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

• H02K1/32 Primary

  with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium · CPC title

• H02K15/09

  by laying conductors into slotted rotors · CPC title

• H02K9/19

  for machines with closed casing and closed-circuit cooling using a liquid cooling medium, e.g. oil · CPC title

• H02K9/10

  by gaseous cooling medium flowing in closed circuit, a part of which is external to the machine casing · CPC title