Rotating electrical machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9621010-B2
Application number	US-201214344678-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 12, 2012
Priority date	Sep 14, 2011
Publication date	Apr 11, 2017
Grant date	Apr 11, 2017

Abstract

A rotating electric machine ( 1 ) having a stator ( 4 ) in a housing ( 2 ) and a rotor ( 10 ) supported by a shaft ( 6 ). The housing ( 2 ) circumferential wall ( 12 ) and first and second axially opposing end walls ( 14, 16 ) support bearing flanges with bearings ( 18 ) for the shaft ( 6 ). Two cooling fan impellers ( 20, 22 ) are connected to the shaft ( 6 ). An inner cooling fan impeller ( 20 ) positioned inside the housing ( 2 ) generates an inner cooling air circuit (A) inside the housing ( 2 ). An outer cooling fan impeller ( 22 ) provided outside the housing ( 2 ), generates an outer cooling air flow (B). The first end wall ( 14 ) is formed with a thermal conductivity of at least a specified value and has an outer cooling rib geometry ( 28 ) on its outer side facing the outer cooling fan impeller ( 22 ), and an inner cooling rib geometry ( 30 ) on its opposing inner side.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotating electric machine ( 1 ) comprising a stator ( 4 ) disposed in a housing ( 2 ) and a rotor ( 10 ) rotatably supported by a shaft ( 6 ) about an axis of rotation ( 8 ), wherein the housing ( 2 ) has a circumferential wall ( 12 ) and two axially opposing first and second end walls ( 14 , 16 ) formed as bearing flanges having rotating-element bearings ( 18 ) for the shaft ( 6 ), and wherein an inner and an outer cooling fan impeller ( 20 , 22 ) are connected to the shaft ( 6 ), the inner cooling fan impeller ( 20 ) disposed inside the housing ( 2 ), which inner cooling fan impeller ( 20 ) upon rotation generates an inner cooling air circuit (A) inside the housing ( 2 ), and the outer cooling fan impeller ( 22 ) disposed outside the housing ( 2 ), which upon rotation generates an outer cooling air flow (B) flowing over the housing ( 2 ), wherein the first end wall ( 14 ) disposed on the side of the outer cooling fan impeller ( 22 ) has an outer cooling rib geometry ( 28 ) on an outer side facing towards the outer cooling fan impeller ( 22 ) as well as an inner cooling rib geometry ( 30 ) on an opposing inner side, wherein the outer cooling fan impeller ( 22 ) is formed as a radial impeller with radial blades ( 32 ), wherein on the first end wall ( 14 ) a cap-like cover ( 33 ) is fitted, overlapping the cooling rib geometry ( 28 ) of which first end wall ( 14 ) and the cooling fan impeller ( 22 ), which has a central air inlet opening ( 38 ) in a cap wall ( 34 ) perpendicular to the axis of rotation ( 8 ) and circumferentially surrounds the first end wall ( 14 ) with an axial circumferential edge ( 36 ) extending from the cap wall ( 34 ), wherein the outer cooling fan impeller ( 22 ) in connection with the cover ( 33 ) is formed such that upon rotation, air drawn in axially through the air inlet opening ( 38 ) of the cover ( 33 ) flows radially outward through the outer cooling rib geometry ( 28 ) and is redirected in an axial direction in the radial outer region over the cover ( 33 ) and flows outward over the housing circumferential wall ( 12 ),
the first end wall ( 14 ) is formed with a high thermal conductivity of at least

100
⁢

W

m
·
K

and the outer cooling rib geometry ( 28 ) of the first end wall ( 14 ) is formed in a radially inner region of the first end wall ( 14 ), which region is covered upon rotation by the outer cooling fan impeller ( 22 ), of cooling projections ( 44 ) projecting axially up to the vicinity of the outer cooling fan impeller ( 22 ), and formed, in a radially outer region of the first end wall ( 14 ), which radially outer region is adjacent to the region of rotation of the outer cooling fan impeller ( 22 ), from the cooling projections ( 46 ) projecting axially up to the cover ( 33 ), and formed, in a radially outer region of the first end wall ( 14 ) from wing-shaped axially and radially oriented rib projections which lie in the inner transition region between the cap wall ( 34 ) and the circumferential edge ( 36 ) of the cover ( 33 ).

2. The electric machine according to claim 1 , further comprising in that at least the first end wall ( 14 ) of the housing ( 2 ), and at least the circumferential wall ( 12 ), is comprised of aluminium having good thermal conductivity.

3. The electric machine according to claim 1 further comprising in that the circumferential wall ( 12 ) of the housing ( 2 ) has a cooling rib geometry ( 40 ) on the outer side, which cooling rib geometry ( 40 ) is comprised at least predominantly of elongated, radially projecting and axially extending cooling ribs ( 42 ).

4. The electric machine according to claim 1 further comprising in that the first end wall ( 14 ) has air openings ( 52 ) for the outer cooling air flow (B) in an outer edge region ( 50 ) radially protruding over the adjacent circumferential wall ( 12 ).

5. The electric machine according to claim 1 further comprising in that the inner cooling fan impeller ( 20 ) is formed as a radial or diagonal impeller such that the inner cooling air circuit (A) passes through axial cooling channels ( 54 ) of the rotor ( 10 ), over the inner cooling rib geometry ( 30 ) of the first end wall ( 14 ), through gaps of the rotor ( 4 ) formed between a stator core ( 24 ) and stator windings ( 26 ), and over an additional cooling rib geometry ( 56 ) on the inner side of the second end wall ( 16 ).

6. The electric machine according to claim 1 further comprising in that the inner cooling rib geometry ( 30 ) of the first end wall ( 14 ) is formed at least partially from pin-type, axially projecting cooling projections ( 58 ).

7. The electric machine according to claim 1 further comprising in that the inner cooling fan impeller ( 20 ) is disposed on the side of the rotor ( 10 ) facing towards the first end wall ( 14 ).

8. The electric machine according to claim 1 further comprising in that the cooling projections ( 44 , 46 , 48 , 58 ) of the first or the second end wall ( 14 , 16 ) is formed with a cross-section tapering towards its free end, so that the respective end wall ( 14 , 16 ) can be manufactured as a die-cast metal part.

9. The electric machine according to claim 8 , further comprising in that the cooling projections ( 44 , 46 , 58 ) have a length-width ratio (l:b) with respect to their cross-section in the range between 0.8 and 1.5.

10. The electric machine according to claim 1 , further comprising in that the wing-shaped rib projections ( 48 ) have a length-width ratio (l:b) with respect to their cross-section in the range between 1.5 and 6.0.

11. The electric machine according to claim 1 , further comprising the cooling projections have a pin-type form.

Assignees

• Stillger Reinhard
• Pfaff Christian
• Krotsch Jens
• Baun Martin
• Baer Martin
• Ehmann Tobias
• Heinze Mark
• Gerner Reinhold
• Hammel Christian
• Ebm Papst Mulfingen Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Stillger Reinhard
• Pfaff Christian
• Krotsch Jens
• Baun Martin
• Baer Martin
• Ehmann Tobias
• Heinze Mark
• Gerner Reinhold
• Hammel Christian

Classifications

• H02K5/18

  with ribs or fins for improving heat transfer · CPC title

• H02K9/22

  by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges · CPC title

• H02K9/14

  wherein gaseous cooling medium circulates between the machine casing and a surrounding mantle · CPC title

• H02K9/16 Primary

  wherein the cooling medium circulates through ducts or tubes within the casing · CPC title

• H02K9/08

  by gaseous cooling medium circulating wholly within the machine casing (H02K9/10 takes precedence) · CPC title