Rotary electric machine and in-vehicle rotary electric machine system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9227518-B2
Application number	US-201113880257-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 20, 2011
Priority date	Oct 19, 2010
Publication date	Jan 5, 2016
Grant date	Jan 5, 2016

Abstract

A rotary electric machine includes a rotor; a stator magnet core; a transformer primary coil wound around the stator magnet core in an insulation state and connected to a power circuit; a transformer secondary coil wound around the stator magnet core in an insulation state and connected to a battery by interposing a DC/AC converter.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotary electric machine comprising:
a rotor;
a stator magnet core;
a DC/AC converter formed by connecting a DC power line to a battery and connecting an AC power line to a stator coil wound around a tooth of the stator magnet core in an insulation state;
a transformer primary coil wound around the stator magnet core in an insulation state and connected to a power circuit; and
a transformer secondary coil that is wound around the stator magnet core in an insulation state and has one end connected to a neutral point of the rotary electric machine and the other end connected to the positive DC power line or the negative DC power line of the DC/AC converter.

2. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein:
the stator magnet core is arranged outside the rotor and has a transformer formation hole penetrating in a rotor axis direction, and
the transformer primary coil and the transformer secondary coil are wound around the stator magnet core through the transformer formation hole.

3. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein:
the transformer primary coil and the transformer secondary coil are wound around a tooth of the stator magnet core to face each other in symmetry with respect to an axis of the stator magnet core.

4. The rotary electric machine according to claim 3 , wherein:
while the transformer primary coil and the transformer secondary coil are wound around teeth of the stator magnet core with a predetermined pitch and a predetermined population, the transformer primary coil and the transformer secondary coil are not wound around at least a pair of teeth.

5. The rotary electric machine according to claim 4 , wherein:
the predetermined pitch is set to an integer multiple of a value obtained by dividing the number of slots by the number of pole pairs.

6. The rotary electric machine according to claim 4 , wherein:
the predetermined population is set to an integer multiple of a value obtained by dividing the number of slots by the number of pole pairs.

7. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein:
the rotary electric machine is an in-wheel type rotary electric machine arranged in an inner circumference side of a load wheel, and
the rotary electric machine further comprises a reactor connected between the transformer secondary coil and the DC/AC converter and arranged in an outer circumference of a housing of the rotary electric machine.

8. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein:
the stator magnet core has a reactor formation hole penetrating in a rotor axis direction, and
the rotary electric machine further comprises a reactor that is connected between the transformer secondary coil and the DC/AC converter and includes a coil wound around the stator magnet core through the reactor formation hole.

9. An in-vehicle rotary electric machine system using the rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , comprising:
a power circuit connected to the transformer primary coil;
a DC/AC converter connected to the transformer secondary coil and the stator coil;
a battery connected to the DC/AC converter; and
a current interrupter connected to the transformer secondary coil to cut off an electric current flowing through the transformer secondary coil when the rotary electric machine outputs a torque.

10. The in-vehicle rotary electric machine system according to claim 9 , wherein:
the current interrupter is a switch arranged between the transformer secondary coil and the DC/AC converter and opened when the rotary electric machine outputs a torque.

11. The in-vehicle rotary electric machine system according to claim 9 , wherein:
the current interrupter is a capacitor arranged between the transformer secondary coil and the DC/AC converter.

12. An in-vehicle rotary electric machine system using the rotary electric machine according to claim 7 , comprising:
a power circuit connected to the transformer primary coil;
a DC/AC converter connected to the reactor and the stator coil;
a battery connected to the DC/AC converter; and
a current interrupter connected to the reactor to cut off an electric current flowing through the reactor when the rotary electric machine outputs a torque.

13. The in-vehicle rotary electric machine system according to claim 12 , wherein:
the current interrupter is a switch arranged between the reactor and the DC/AC converter and opened when the rotary electric machine outputs a torque.

14. The in-vehicle rotary electric machine system according to claim 12 , wherein:
the current interrupter is a capacitor arranged between the reactor and the DC/AC converter.

15. The in-vehicle rotary electric machine system according to claim 9 , wherein:
the current interrupter also serves as a capacitor of the DC/AC converter.

16. The in-vehicle rotary electric machine system according to claim 9 , wherein:
the power circuit includes a power-factor improvement circuit.

17. The in-vehicle rotary electric machine system according to claim 9 , wherein:
the DC/AC converter performs power-factor improvement control based on an AC voltage and an AC electric current of the out-of-vehicle power supply side.

18. The in-vehicle rotary electric machine system according to claim 9 , wherein:
the power circuit controls a voltage of the transformer primary coil,
the DC/AC converter controls an electric current of the transformer secondary coil, and
the power circuit and the DC/AC converter perform control such that a phase of the voltage of the transformer primary coil matches a phase of the electric current of the transformer secondary coil.

19. The in-vehicle rotary electric machine system according to claim 9 , further comprising:
a capacitor connected to the transformer primary coil in parallel.

Assignees

• Fukushige Takashi
• Nissan Motor

Inventors

• Fukushige Takashi

Classifications

• H02K11/0094

  Structural association with other electrical or electronic devices · CPC title

• B60L50/51

  characterised by AC-motors · CPC title

• Y02T10/7072

  Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors · CPC title

• H02K3/04

  Windings characterised by the conductor shape, form or construction, e.g. with bar conductors · CPC title

• Y02T90/14

  Plug-in electric vehicles · CPC title