Electric motor with outer radiator and two separate cooling circuits

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9768667-B2
Application number	US-201615018401-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 8, 2016
Priority date	Feb 6, 2015
Publication date	Sep 19, 2017
Grant date	Sep 19, 2017

Abstract

A motor includes a frame defining an internal volume in which are housed a rotor and a stator; at least one cooling circuit, which includes a primary inlet and a primary outlet in fluidic communication with the outside of the frame; at least one cooling device outside the frame, which includes a secondary air inlet and a secondary air outlet, and a conduit; at least one secondary cooling circuit, separate from the primary circuit, crossing the rotor and in fluidic communication with the secondary inlet and the secondary outlet of the cooling device. The secondary cooling circuit is crossed by a channel of the primary cooling circuit supplying the stator with the gas fluid from the outside of the frame.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electric motor, comprising:
a frame defining an internal volume in which are housed a rotor and a stator,
at least one primary cooling circuit crossing the stator, comprising a primary inlet and a primary outlet in fluidic communication with the outside of the frame, a gas fluid from the outside of the frame penetrating through said primary inlet being intended to circulate in said primary cooling circuit and to leave said primary cooling circuit through said primary outlet,
at least one cooling device outside the frame comprising a secondary air inlet and a secondary air outlet, said secondary air inlet and said secondary air outlet being in fluidic communication with the internal volume of the frame, a conduit, connecting said secondary air inlet and said secondary air outlet, extending at least partly outside the frame,
at least one secondary cooling circuit, separate from the primary cooling circuit, crossing the rotor and in fluidic communication with the secondary air inlet and the secondary air outlet of the cooling device, a gas fluid internal to the secondary cooling circuit being intended to circulate in said secondary cooling circuit and in said cooling device,
wherein the secondary cooling circuit is crossed by a channel of the primary cooling circuit supplying the stator with the gas fluid from the outside of the frame, and
wherein the channel includes a section with a conical shape with an apex turned upstream of the air flow and a base turned downstream.

2. The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein the channel crosses the secondary cooling circuit transversely so as to separate the gas flow circulating in the secondary cooling circuit into two flows passing around the channel.

3. The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein the channel crosses the secondary cooling circuit mainly in a direction substantially parallel with an axis of rotation of a shaft of the electric motor.

4. The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein the channel is laid out between the primary inlet and a portion of the primary cooling circuit crossing the stator.

5. The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein the channel includes a diameter between 10 and 50 mm.

6. The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein several cooling devices outside the frame are arranged around the frame.

7. The electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein a radial fan is mounted on the shaft of the electric motor in order to accelerate a gas flow in the secondary cooling circuit.

8. The electric motor according to claim 7 , wherein the radial fan allows simultaneous acceleration of a gas flow in the primary cooling circuit and of a gas flow in the secondary cooling circuit.

9. The electric motor according to claim 7 , wherein the fan is configured so as to generate a pressure in the secondary cooling circuit which is greater than a pressure in the primary cooling circuit.

Assignees

• Alstom Transp Tech

Inventors

• Randria Andry
• Raguin Bruno

Classifications

• H02K9/06 Primary

  with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft · CPC title

• H02K9/14 Primary

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

• H02K1/20

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

• H02K9/18

  wherein the external part of the closed circuit comprises a heat exchanger structurally associated with the machine casing · CPC title