Motor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11056950-B2
Application number	US-201916512471-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 16, 2019
Priority date	Apr 12, 2019
Publication date	Jul 6, 2021
Grant date	Jul 6, 2021

Abstract

A motor includes a rotary shaft having at least one spray hole for spraying a cooling fluid, a rotor installed on the rotary shaft, and a stator surrounding an outer circumference of the rotor, wherein the rotor includes a plurality of rotor blocks arranged on an outer circumference of the rotary shaft. Each of the rotor blocks may include a magnet installed at a rotor core and a cooling guide may be disposed between a pair of the plurality of rotor blocks and form a spray flow path for guiding a cooling fluid that has passed through the spray hole to be sprayed in a direction toward an inner circumference of the stator.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor comprising:
a rotary shaft having at least one spray hole configured for spraying a cooling fluid from a rotary shaft flow path in the rotary shaft;
a rotor installed on the rotary shaft; and
a stator surrounding an outer circumference of the rotor,
wherein the rotor comprises:
a plurality of rotor blocks arranged on an outer circumference of the rotary shaft and each of the rotor blocks including a magnet installed in a rotor core; and
a cooling guide disposed between two of the plurality of rotor blocks and forming a spray flow path configured to guide the cooling fluid passing through the at least one spray hole to be sprayed to an inner circumference of the stator,
wherein an outer diameter of the cooling guide is smaller than an outer diameter of the rotor core of each of the rotor blocks,
wherein a gap is formed between the pair of adjacent rotor blocks and the gap has a major arc shape, and
wherein a portion of the cooling fluid sprayed to the inner circumference of the stator from the spray flow path falls into the gap and flows along the gap.

2. The motor of claim 1 , wherein
the stator comprises:
a stator core having a slot; and
a coil wound around the slot,
wherein an outlet of the spray flow path is opened toward the inner circumference of the stator core.

3. The motor of claim 1 , wherein
an inlet of the spray flow path is aligned with the spray hole in a radial direction.

4. The motor of claim 3 , wherein
the cooling guide includes a first fixing portion protruding from an inner circumference of the cooling guide, and
the rotary shaft includes a second fixing portion fixed with the first fixing portion when the inlet of the spray flow path is positioned to be aligned with the spray hole.

5. The motor of claim 1 , wherein
the rotary shaft includes a plurality of spray holes provided at axially spaced positions along the rotary shaft.

6. The motor of claim 5 , further comprising:
a sensor configured to sense a rotation speed of the rotary shaft,
wherein any one of the plurality of spray holes is closer to the sensor than any others of the plurality of spray holes.

7. The motor of claim 1 , wherein
the stator comprises a coil; and
wherein the rotary shaft further includes:
a first region surrounded by the rotor; and
a second region not surrounded by the rotor and facing an end coil of the coil.

8. The motor of claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of rotor blocks are spaced apart from each other in an axial direction, and
the cooling guide is disposed between a pair of rotor blocks adjacent to each other in the axial direction of the rotary shaft.

9. The motor of claim 1 , wherein
a thickness of the cooling guide is smaller than a thickness of the rotor core of each of the rotor blocks.

10. The motor of claim 9 , wherein
an inner diameter of the cooling guide is equal to an inner diameter of each of the rotor blocks.

11. The motor of claim 1 , wherein
the rotor core of each of the rotor blocks is a conductor, and
the cooling guide is a non-conductor.

12. The motor of claim 1 , wherein
the cooling guide comprises aluminum or a synthetic resin.

13. The motor of claim 1 , wherein
a first circumferential end and a second circumferential end of the cooling guide are spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, and
a slit forming the spray flow path is formed between the first and second circumferential ends of the cooling guide.

14. The motor of claim 13 , wherein
the slit is opened in a radial direction on the cooling guide.

15. The motor of claim 13 , wherein
the cooling guide is one of a plurality of cooling guides disposed on an outer circumference of the rotary shaft,
the plurality of cooling guides being spaced apart from each other in an axial direction of the rotary shaft, and
an opening direction of a slit formed on any one of the plurality of cooling guides being different from an opening direction of a slit formed on any other of the plurality of cooling guides.

16. The motor of claim 13 , further comprising:
a first protrusion protruding from an outer circumference of the first circumferential end of the cooling guide in a radial direction; and
a second protrusion protruding from an outer circumference of the second circumferential end of the cooling guide in the radial direction,
wherein the first protrusion and the second protrusion are spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, and
the first protrusion and the second protrusion each face the inner circumference of the stator.

17. The motor of claim 1 , wherein
the rotary shaft further includes:
a first region surrounded by the rotor; and
a second region not surrounded by the rotor and facing an end coil of a coil of the stator,
wherein the second region has an end coil cooling hole opened in a radial direction.

18. The motor of claim 17 , wherein
the rotary shaft includes a pair of end coil cooling holes,
the stator includes a pair of end coils, and
the pair of end coils are spaced apart from each other in an axial direction by a first distance that is greater than a second distance over which a plurality of the at least one spray holes are spaced apart from each other in the axial direction.

19. The motor of claim 17 , wherein
the rotor includes a pair of end plates each covering an axially outermost rotor block,
the rotary shaft includes a stopper protruding from an outer circumference of the rotary shaft, the stopper being configured to act as an axial stop for any one of the pair of end plates, and
a retainer is disposed on the outer circumference of the rotary shaft, the retainer being configured to act as an axial stop for the other of the pair of end plates.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Jung Taeyong
• Park Youngil
• Yang Haerim
• Ha Hyeonho

Classifications

• H02K9/19 Primary

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

• H02K11/21

  Devices for sensing speed or position, or actuated thereby (specially adapted for machines having non-mechanical commutating devices H02K29/06, H02K29/14) · CPC title

• H02K1/278

  Surface mounted magnets; Inset magnets · CPC title

• H02K1/16

  Stator cores with slots for windings · CPC title

• H02K7/003

  Couplings; Details of shafts (means for mounting rotors on shafts H02K1/28) · CPC title