Electric machine having slot insulation with flange arrangement

1. An electric machine having a rotor and a stator that encloses and houses the rotor, a slot insulation that is applied to the stator, and a flange arrangement positioned in an axial direction on at least one end face of the stator,

wherein the slot insulation comprises slot insulating members, each of said slot insulating members including a flange part and a plurality of protrusions that are inserted into slots of the stator in an axial direction, and

wherein the slot insulation has a means of centering the rotor and the flange arrangement with respect to the stator.

2. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the slot insulation has means of centering a bearing support for a rotor bearing.

3. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the flange arrangement has a bearing support for a rotor bearing.

4. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the slot insulation has a circumferential surface against which the flange arrangement comes to lie.

5. An electric machine according to claim 4 , wherein the flange arrangement encompasses the slot insulation in the region of its circumferential surface.

6. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the slot insulation has pins for its attachment to the flange arrangement.

7. An electric machine according to claim 6 , wherein the pins are designed to facilitate a connection using hot caulking.

8. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein a step is formed at the outside circumference of the stator, the step interacting with the flange arrangement.

9. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the slot insulation has means of centering a circuit board that is disposed at the end face of the stator.

10. An electric machine according to claim 9 , wherein the slot insulation and the circuit board are connected to each other using snap-in fasteners.

11. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the stator and the flange arrangement are connected by welding, particularly laser welding.

12. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the flange arrangement has a cup-shaped flange component that encompasses the slot insulation and is in contact with the stator.

13. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the flange arrangement has a first flange component that has a connecting surface which adjoins the end face of the stator and whose geometry is adapted to the geometry of the end surface of the stator, so that a stator winding, which is wound onto the stator and the adjoining connecting surface, connects the stator and the first flange component to each other.

14. An electric machine according to claim 13 , wherein the first flange component is cup-shaped in form and the connecting surface forms the bottom of the cup.

15. An electric machine according to claim 14 , wherein the flange arrangement has a second flange component that is formed as a cover for the first flange component and is connected to the first flange component.

16. An electric machine according to claim 15 , wherein the first and the second flange component are caulked to one another.

17. An electric machine according to claim 13 , wherein the connecting surface comes to lie between the slot insulation and the end face of the stator.

18. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein a flange arrangement is disposed at both end faces of the stator, the flange arrangements at the two end faces being identical or varying in design, and

the outside circumference of the flange arrangements is substantially flush with the outside circumference of the stator.

19. An electric machine according to claim 18 , wherein the stator has a back yoke ring and stator slots and stator poles that are formed on the inside circumference of the back yoke ring and which receive the stator winding, and that the flange arrangements, together with the back yoke ring, form the housing of the electric machine.

20. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the flange arrangement adjoins the end face of the stator and the slot insulation lies within the flange arrangement.

21. An electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the slot insulation has a first and a second insulation member that is slid from opposing end faces of the stator into the stator slots.

22. An electric machine having:

a rotor and a stator that encloses and houses the rotor; and

first and second flange arrangements which are arranged at both end faces in an axial direction of the stator,

wherein the stator comprises a back yoke ring and stator slots and stator poles that are formed on the inside circumference of the back yoke ring,

wherein the flange arrangements, together with the back yoke ring, form the housing of the electric machine,

wherein the stator is made up of a plurality of stator laminations that are joined to form a lamination stack, and

wherein protrusions are formed on the outside circumference of the individual stator laminations and the stator laminations are disposed at an angular offset to one another, so as to increase the outside surface of the stator compared to a perfectly cylindrical outside surface.

23. An electric machine having a rotor and a stator that encloses and houses the rotor, a slot insulation that is applied to the stator, and a flange arrangement positioned in an axial direction on at least one end face of the stator,

wherein the slot insulation comprises slot insulating members, each of said slot insulating members including a flange part and a plurality of protrusions that are inserted into slots of the stator in an axial direction, and

where the slot insulation has a means of centering the rotor or the flange arrangement with respect to the stator.

24. The electric machine of claim 22 wherein the angular offset is an integral multiple of stator pole pitch.