Electric motor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12587048-B2
Application number	US-202318504643-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 8, 2023
Priority date	Nov 11, 2022
Publication date	Mar 24, 2026
Grant date	Mar 24, 2026

Abstract

An electric motor disclosed herein may include a stator, a supply hole, a first flow passage, and second flow passages. The first flow passage and the second flow passages may be provided in the stator. The first flow passage may extend along a circumferential direction of the stator. The second flow passages may extend along an axis of the stator and cross the first flow passage. A plurality of guides may be provided in the first flow passage to disturb a flow of refrigerant. The refrigerant is supplied from the supply hole to the first flow passage and disturbed by the guides. A part of the refrigerant of which flow is disturbed flows into the second flow passages. The refrigerant is distributed, thus, the refrigerant flows evenly into the second flow passages. The entire stator is thus effectively cooled.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electric motor comprising:
a stator surrounding a rotor; a first flow passage provided in the stator and extending along a circumferential direction of the stator; a supply hole for supplying refrigerant to the first flow passage; second flow passages provided in the stator and extending along an axis of the stator, the second flow passages crossing the first flow passage; and guides provided in the first flow passage and configured to disturb a flow of the refrigerant in the first flow passage, wherein coil ends are exposed at an end of the stator, an opening of each of the second flow passages is located at the end of the stator, and the refrigerant supplied through the supply hole flows in the first flow passage and each of the second flow passages, and is discharged from the opening of each of the second flow passages towards the coil ends.

2 . The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the guides is connected to a bottom surface and both of side surfaces of the first flow passage, and each of the guides is a plate whose area is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the first flow passage.

3 . The electric motor according to claim 2 , wherein a surface of each of the guides is connected with an inner surface of at least one of the second flow passages.

4 . The electric motor according to claim 2 , wherein
the axis of the stator is arranged horizontally; the supply hole is positioned between a center height of the stator and an overall height of the stator; and an area of each of the guides positioned lower than a crossing position at which an ejecting direction of the refrigerant ejected from the supply hole crosses the bottom surface of the first flow passage is larger than an area of each of the guides positioned higher than the crossing position.

5 . The electric motor according to claim 2 , wherein the guides are arranged equally spaced in the circumferential direction of the stator.

6 . The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein the guides are protrusions protruding from a bottom surface of the first flow passage.

7 . The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein each of the guides has a wedge shape which is narrow on an upstream side and wide on a downstream side along a flowing direction of the refrigerant in the first flow passage.

8 . The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein the first flow passage is a groove provided in an outer surface of the stator.

9 . The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein the second flow passages are holes provided in the stator.

10 . The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein:
the axis of the stator is arranged horizontally; and a number of the second flow passages arranged in an upper half of the stator is larger than a number of the second flow passages arranged in a lower half of the stator.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Miyazono Hideaki
• Deguchi Junichi
• Asaoka Hironori
• Ohta Kei
• Okazaki Sho
• Kobayashi Junya

Classifications

• H02K9/19

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

• H02K1/20 Primary

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

• H02K9/193

  with provision for replenishing the cooling medium; with means for preventing leakage of the cooling medium · CPC title

• H02K9/00 Primary

  Arrangements for cooling or ventilating (channels or ducts in parts of the magnetic circuit H02K1/20, H02K1/32; channels or ducts in or between conductors H02K3/22, H02K3/24) · CPC title