Rotating electric machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9553493-B2
Application number	US-201314384855-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 15, 2013
Priority date	Mar 30, 2012
Publication date	Jan 24, 2017
Grant date	Jan 24, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a rotating electric machine the interior of which can be suitably cooled. A coolant supply means of the rotating electric machine supplies a cooling fluid to the bottom of a tubular member from a location closer to one end of a rotary shaft than the bottom, and the bottom of the tubular member is equipped with through-holes that run in the axial direction of the rotary shaft, with the cooling fluid being supplied to the interior of the tubular member through the through-holes.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotary electric machine comprising:
a motor rotor; and
a coolant supply unit configured to supply a cooling fluid for cooling the motor rotor,
the motor rotor including:
a rotational shaft having one end and another end opposite to the one end;
a tubular member extending along the rotational shaft, having a bottom wall disposed on the one end side of the rotational shaft and an opening disposed on the another end side of the rotational shaft, the bottom wall being fixed to an outer circumferential surface of the rotational shaft; and
a rotor core fixed to an outer circumferential surface of the tubular member,
wherein the coolant supply unit has an outlet hole at a point spaced apart from and facing the bottom wall of the tubular member in an axial direction of the rotational shaft, the outlet hole being configured to supply the cooling fluid toward the bottom wall of the tubular member,
the bottom wall of the tubular member has a through hole extending along the axial direction of the rotational shaft, and
the cooling fluid is supplied through the through hole to inside of the tubular member,
a first protrusive wall is annularly formed on the bottom wall of the tubular member and projects toward the one end side of the rotational shaft from a portion positioned radially outward of the through hole, and
the outlet hole is disposed radially inward of the first protrusive wall and faces the bottom wall of the tubular member in the axial direction.

2. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the coolant supply unit includes:
an axial flow passage formed in the rotational shaft; and
an axial opening configured to establish communication between the axial flow passage and outside of the rotational shaft, and
wherein the protrusive wall has a portion that overlaps with the axial opening, as viewed along a radial direction of the motor rotor.

3. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein an inner circumferential surface of the protrusive wall has a greater-diameter portion including a recess recessed in a radial direction in which depth of the recess becomes gradually greater from the one end side toward the another end side of the rotational shaft.

4. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein a rotor of a rotary sensor is fixed to the protrusive wall.

5. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein a gear mechanism, which is coupled to the rotational shaft, is disposed in the tubular member.

6. The rotary electric machine according to claim 5 , wherein a second protrusive wall is formed on the bottom wall of the tubular member and projects toward the another end side of the rotational shaft from a portion positioned radially outward of the through hole, and
a distal end of the second protrusive wall overlaps with a portion of a gear of the gear mechanism, as viewed along the radial direction of the motor rotor.

7. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein a second annular protrusive wall is formed on the bottom wall of the tubular member and projects toward the another end side of the rotational shaft from a portion positioned radially outward of the through hole, and
wherein the coolant supply unit includes:
an axial flow passage formed in the rotational shaft; and
an axial opening configured to establish communication between the axial flow passage and outside of the rotational shaft, and
wherein the second protrusive wall has a portion that overlaps with the axial opening, as viewed along a radial direction of the motor rotor.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Mogi Seiichi
• Fujimoto Shinji
• Kuwabara Takaaki
• Kato Shingo

Classifications

• H02K9/19 Primary

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

• H02K1/32

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