Sealing sleeve for a stator of an electrical machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12081108-B2
Application number	US-202017434090-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2020
Priority date	Feb 28, 2019
Publication date	Sep 3, 2024
Grant date	Sep 3, 2024

Abstract

A sealing sleeve for a stator of an electrical machine is disclosed. The sealing sleeve is configured to provide that a coolant flowing around the stator coils follows a predefined, serpentine coolant path. The sleeve has two sealing rings arranged on the stator with the coils of the stator lying between them. Each sealing ring includes a hard component and a soft component. The sleeve is arranged on the stator such that sealing sections of the soft component bear against the surfaces of the stator coils and adapt to the coil surfaces. As such, no coolant may pass between the coils and the sealing rings at these sealing locations thus formed, and therefore the desired coolant flow is guaranteed. Furthermore, the sealing rings are configured such that alternately for each coil only one of the sealing rings has a sealing section so that ultimately the serpentine coolant flow is achieved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A sealing ring of a sealing sleeve for a stator of an electrical machine, the sealing sleeve having a multiplicity of coils and stator teeth, the sealing ring comprising:
a first, hard component; and
a second, deformable component,
wherein the second component is applied to a first axial surface of the first component,
wherein the second component comprises first seal sections arranged on the first axial surface in a manner distributed along a tangential direction and with specific angular spacings relative to one another,
wherein the angular spacings between centers of two adjacent first seal sections when viewed in the tangential direction are 360°/n 212 ′,
wherein n 212 ′ indicates a number of first seal sections, and
wherein n 212 ′=n 121 /N, where n 121 indicates a number of coils of the stator and N≥2.

2. The sealing ring of claim 1 , wherein the sealing ring has a radially outer region and a radially inner region, and
wherein the first seal sections extend in a radial direction between the radially outer region and the radially inner region.

3. The sealing ring of claim 2 , wherein a radial extent of one of the radially outer region and the radially inner region of the sealing ring corresponds to a radial thickness of a respective tooth root of the stator teeth,
wherein a radial extent of the other of the radially outer region and the radially inner region of the sealing ring corresponds to a radial thickness of a respective tooth head of the stator teeth, and
wherein a radial spacing between the radially outer region and the radially inner region corresponds to a radial extent of a respective tooth neck of the stator teeth.

4. The sealing ring of claim 2 , wherein the second component comprises further seal sections,
wherein a first further seal section of the further seal sections is applied in the radially outer region of the first axial surface of the first component, and a second further seal section of the further seal sections is applied in the radially inner region of the first axial surface of the first component,
wherein the further seal sections are circular-ring-shaped and are coaxial with one another, and
wherein the first seal sections extend in the radial direction between the first further seal section and the second further seal section.

5. The sealing ring of claim 4 , wherein the first seal sections and the further seal sections merge into one another.

6. The sealing ring of claim 1 , wherein the first seal sections have an extent in the tangential direction which corresponds at least to a tangential extent of a respective stator tooth.

7. A sealing sleeve for a stator of an electrical machine, the stator having a multiplicity of coils and stator teeth, the sealing sleeve comprising:
a first sealing ring; and
a second sealing ring,
wherein each sealing ring of the first sealing ring and the second sealing ring has a first, hard component and a second, deformable component, where the second component is applied to a first axial surface of the first component,
wherein the first sealing ring and the second sealing ring are arranged coaxially with respect to one another such that the first axial surfaces of the first components of the first and second sealing rings and the second components of the first and second sealing rings face one another, and
wherein the first sealing ring is rotated by an angle β=360°/n 121 relative to the second sealing ring, where n 121 indicates a number of coils of the stator.

8. The sealing sleeve of claim 7 , wherein the second component of each sealing ring comprises a multiplicity of first seal sections arranged on the respective first axial surface of the first component of a respective sealing ring in a manner distributed along a tangential direction and with specific angular spacings relative to one another,
wherein the first seal sections of the second component of the first sealing ring are arranged at angles of α 212 ′(l)=l* 360 °/n 212 ′, where l=1, . . . , n 212 ′, wherein n 212 ′ indicates a number of first seal sections of the second component of the first sealing ring, and
wherein the first seal sections of the second component of the second sealing ring are arranged at angles of α 222 ′(l)=β+l*360°/n 222 ′ where l=1, . . . , n 222 ′, wherein n 222 ′ indicates the number of first seal sections of the second component of the second sealing ring.

9. A stator for an electrical machine, the stator comprising:
a multiplicity of coils arranged one behind another when viewed in a tangential direction; and
a sealing sleeve comprising a first sealing ring and a second sealing ring, wherein each sealing ring has a first, hard component and a second, deformable component, where the second component is applied to a first axial surface of the first component, wherein the first sealing ring and the second sealing ring are arranged coaxially with respect to one another such that the first axial surfaces of the first components of the first and second sealing rings and the second components of the first and second sealing rings face one another, and wherein the first sealing ring is rotated by an angle β=360°/n 121 relative to the second sealing ring, where n 121 indicates a number of coils of the stator;
wherein the sealing sleeve is arranged on the stator such that at least first seal sections of the second components of the sealing rings of the sealing sleeve each rest against specific coils of the multiplicity of coils, and
wherein, when the multiplicity of coils and second components are resting against one another, a surface of a respective first seal section of the second component facing the respective coil adapts to the respective surface of the coil facing the respective first seal section of the second component by virtue of the deformability of the second component.

10. The stator of claim 9 , wherein first seal sections of the second component of the first sealing ring, but not first seal sections of the second component of the second sealing ring, rest against each N th coil of the multiplicity of coils of the stator, where N≥2, and
wherein the first seal sections of the second component of the second sealing ring, but not the first seal sections of the second component of the first sealing ring, rest against the remaining coils of the multiplicity of coils of the stator.

11. The stator of claim 9 , wherein, for a coil against which one of the first seal sections of the second component of one of the first and second sealing rings rests, there is an intermediate space between the respective coil and the first component of the respective other sealing ring.

12. The stator of claim 9 , wherein coils of the multiplicity of coils arranged at angles α 121 ( k )=k*360°/n 121 , where k=1, . . . , n 121 ,
wherein the second component of each sealing ring comprises a multiplicity of first seal sections distributed along a respective tangential direction and arranged on the first axial surface of the first component of a respective sealing ring,
wherein the first seal sections of the second component of the first sealing ring are arranged at angles of α 212 ′(l)=l*360°/n 212 ′, where l=1, . . . , n 212 ′ and n 212 ′ indicates a number of first seal sections of the first sealing ring,
wherein the first seal sections of the second component of the second sealing ring are arranged at angles of α 222 ′(l)=β+l*360°/n 222 ′ where l=1, . . . , n 222 ′ and n 222 ′ indicates a number of first seal sections of the second sealing ring, and wherein β=360°/n 121 describes a rotation of the second sealing ring relative to the first sealing ring, and
wherein n 212 ′=n 222

Assignees

• Rolls Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co Kg

Inventors

• Amende Tony
• Kuebel Thomas
• Rettig Thomas

Classifications

• H02K3/24

  with channels or ducts for cooling medium between the conductors · CPC title

• H02K1/20 Primary

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

• H02K5/203

  specially adapted for liquids, e.g. cooling jackets · CPC title

• H02K9/197 Primary

  in which the rotor or stator space is fluid-tight, e.g. to provide for different cooling media for rotor and stator · CPC title