Rotor having a support device, electric machine having a rotor, and motor vehicle having an electric machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12255498-B2
Application number	US-202218072799-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 1, 2022
Priority date	Dec 2, 2021
Publication date	Mar 18, 2025
Grant date	Mar 18, 2025

Abstract

A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor main body which has at least two poles between which in the circumferential direction of the rotor is disposed at least one pole gap, and a rotor shaft which is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotor main body. The rotor has a support device which has a covering body that is configured for covering at least regions of an end side of the rotor main body. The support device has an annular body, which is different from the covering body, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the rotor main body, on the one hand, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the covering body, on the other hand.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotor for an electric machine, comprising:
a rotor main body which has at least two poles between which, in a circumferential direction of the rotor, is disposed at least one pole gap;
a rotor shaft coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotor main body; and
a support device comprising a covering body and an annular body, which annular body is different from the covering body, wherein:
the covering body is configured for covering at least regions of an end side of the rotor main body;
the annular body is braced in a direction of radial extent of the rotor both in relation to the rotor main body and in relation to the covering body;
the covering body has a through opening;
the rotor shaft at least in the regions is guided through the through opening;
the covering body has an annular central region which circumferentially encircles the through opening, and at least two covering regions that in the direction of radial extent of the rotor protrude from the central region;
a recess of the covering body in the circumferential direction of the rotor is disposed between the at least two covering regions; and
one covering region of the at least two covering regions covers, in the direction of axial extent of the rotor, at least in regions in each case one of the poles.

2. The rotor according to claim 1 , wherein:
the covering body has at least one protrusion which is oriented in the direction of axial extent of the rotor and in the direction of the rotor main body and which is disposed on at least one of the covering regions and introduced into at least one corresponding receptacle opening of the rotor main body.

3. The rotor according to claim 1 , wherein:
the covering body has at least one reinforcement structure which divides the recess between the at least two covering regions into at least two recess sub-regions, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced with the annular body.

4. The rotor according to claim 3 , wherein:
the at least one reinforcement structure in a section plane oriented along a rotation axis of the rotor has an L-shaped cross section.

5. The rotor according to one of claim 3 , wherein:
the at least two covering regions in the direction of radial extent of the rotor are spaced apart from the annular body, and
the covering body is supported on the annular body by way of the at least one reinforcement structure.

6. An electric machine for a motor vehicle comprising at least one rotor according to claim 1 .

7. The electric machine according to claim 6 , wherein:
the electric machine is configured as a current-excited synchronous machine.

8. A motor vehicle comprising at least one electric machine according to claim 6 .

Assignees

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Ag

Inventors

• Lang Markus
• Ragot Jerome
• Schmidt Robert

Classifications

• H02K1/24

  Rotor cores with salient poles {; Variable reluctance rotors} · CPC title

• H02K2205/12

  Machines characterised by means for reducing windage losses or windage noise · CPC title

• H02K1/28 Primary

  Means for mounting or fastening rotating magnetic parts on to, or to, the rotor structures · CPC title

• H02K3/527 Primary

  applicable to rotors only · CPC title