Electrical machine with grounded shield arrangement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11962218-B2
Application number	US-202217669974-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 11, 2022
Priority date	Feb 11, 2021
Publication date	Apr 16, 2024
Grant date	Apr 16, 2024

Abstract

An electrical machine including a stator, a rotor and a bearing arrangement having a first bearing and a second bearing on opposite sides of the stator as well as a shielding arrangement comprising a first shielding unit and a second shielding unit. The rotor is rotatably supported around a rotation axis by means of bearings. The shielding units are electrically conductive and comprise a ring part in each case that extends originating from a radial inner end to a radial outer end away from the rotation axis. Preferably each shielding unit has a circumferential part on its radial outer end that extends in a continuous ring-shaped manner around rotation axis and is arranged in overlapping manner with the adjacent axial end of stator winding in axial direction. The circumferential parts are preferably completely closed, whereas the ring parts can comprise through holes.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electrical machine, comprising:
a stator comprising an electrically conductive winding support electrically connected with earth or a reference potential and a central body defining a rotation axis and a stator winding;
a bearing arrangement comprising a first bearing arranged on the central body and a second bearing arranged on the central body, wherein the winding support of the stator is arranged in an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis between the first bearing and the second bearing;
a rotor rotatably supported around the rotation axis by means of the bearing arrangement;
an electrically conductive first shielding unit electrically connected with earth or a reference potential that comprises a first ring part extending in a ring-shaped manner in a circumferential direction around the rotation axis and extending starting from a radial inner end radially outward to a radial outer end, wherein the radial inner end is arranged between the first bearing and the winding support and is connected with the central body; and
an electrically conductive second shielding unit that is electrically connected with earth or a reference potential that comprises a second ring part extending in a ring-shaped manner in circumferential direction around the rotation axis and extending starting from a radial inner end radially outward to a radial outer end, wherein the radial inner end is arranged between the second bearing and the winding support and is connected with the central body, wherein the first ring part and/or the second ring part comprise through holes arranged with distance to one another in the circumferential direction, and a first edge section of an edge of each of the through holes is arranged at an air guide part extending obliquely over a respective one of the through holes and a second edge section of the edge of each of the through holes is arranged opposite the first edge section in the circumferential direction and the second edge section is off-set in the axial direction relative to the first edge section.

2. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the first shielding unit and the second shielding unit are arranged in a space that is completely surrounded by the central body, the first bearing and the second bearing and the rotor.

3. The electrical machine according to claim 2 , wherein the first shielding unit is electrically connected with the central body via the first ring part and with earth or the reference potential via the central body and the second shielding unit is electrically connected with the central body via the second ring part and with earth or the reference potential via the central body.

4. The electrical machine according to claim 3 , wherein the central body is a cylindrical sleeve or a cylindrical pin.

5. The electrical machine according to claim 4 , wherein the first shielding unit comprises a ring-shaped first circumferential part that extends in axial direction and in circumferential direction around the rotation axis and is arranged between the stator winding and the rotor.

6. The electrical machine according to claim 5 , wherein the second shielding unit comprises a ring-shaped second circumferential part that extends in an axial direction and in circumferential direction and is arranged between the stator winding and the rotor.

7. The electrical machine according to claim 6 , wherein the first shielding unit consists of an integrally configured first shielding element and/or wherein the second shielding unit consists of an integrally configured second shielding element.

8. The electrical machine according to claim 7 , wherein the first ring part and/or the second ring part comprise through holes arranged with distance to one another in the circumferential direction.

9. The electrical machine according to claim 8 , wherein the through holes are arranged approximately aligned in a radial direction radial to the rotation axis relative to a respectively assigned groove, wherein each respectively assigned groove is arranged between two directly adjacent teeth of the winding support.

10. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the first shielding unit is electrically connected with the central body via the first ring part and with earth or the reference potential via the central body and the second shielding unit is electrically connected with the central body via the second ring part and with earth or the reference potential via the central body.

11. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the central body is a cylindrical sleeve or a cylindrical pin.

12. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the first shielding unit comprises a ring-shaped first circumferential part that extends in axial direction and in circumferential direction around the rotation axis and is arranged between the stator winding and the rotor.

13. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the second shielding unit comprises a ring-shaped second circumferential part that extends in an axial direction and in circumferential direction and is arranged between the stator winding and the rotor.

14. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the first shielding unit consists of an integrally configured first shielding element and/or wherein the second shielding unit consists of an integrally configured second shielding element.

15. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the through holes are arranged approximately aligned in a radial direction radial to the rotation axis relative to a respectively assigned groove, wherein each respectively assigned groove is arranged between two directly adjacent teeth of the winding support.

16. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the first ring part and/or the second ring part comprise an outer ring section that extends parallel to a plane orientated orthogonal to the rotation axis.

17. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first ring part and the second ring part comprises an inner ring section that extends obliquely relative to the rotation axis.

18. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein one inner insulator is arranged between the first bearing and the stator and the second bearing and the stator respectively.

19. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein an outer insulator is arranged between the first bearing and the rotor and the second bearing and the rotor respectively.

20. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the air guide part is arranged on a downstream side of the respective one of the through holes with respect to an air flow direction.

21. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the air guide part extends from the first shielding unit or the second shielding unit towards an axially directly adjacent part of the stator.

22. The electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein two through holes of the through holes that are arranged directly adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction are separated from one another by a web of the first ring part or the second ring part, and wherein the air guide part is monolithically connected with the web.

Assignees

• Ebm Papst Mulfingen Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Buerkert Martin
• Mueller Rainer
• Haefner Jochen
• Schroth Sebastian

Classifications

• H02K5/1732 Primary

  radially supporting the rotary shaft at both ends of the rotor (H02K5/1737 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02K11/0141 Primary

  Shields associated with casings, enclosures or brackets · CPC title

• H02K11/40

  Structural association with grounding devices · CPC title

• H02K11/014 Primary

  Shields associated with stationary parts, e.g. stator cores · CPC title