IP Library Granted Patent US 11,075,570
Granted Patent B2
US 11,075,570 · App. 16/096,552 · Granted Jul 27, 2021

Rotary electric machine and drive system using same

Inventors: Kazuo Nishihama (Tokyo, JP); Masanori Sawahata (Tokyo, JP); Takayuki Koyama (Tokyo, JP); Makoto Imura (Tokyo, JP); Yuuichirou Yoshitake (Tokyo, JP); Kenichi Sugimoto (Tokyo, JP); Kengo Ueda (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd.
H02K17/165H02K1/26H02K1/265H02K1/32H02K17/16H02K17/20H02P25/02H02K2213/03
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Patent No.
US 11,075,570
App. No.
16/096,552
Granted
Jul 27, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a rotary electric machine that ensures improving a maximum torque and a rated power factor while reducing an increase in a starting current. In view of this, the rotary electric machine includes a shaft, a rotor, and a stator. The rotor is fixed to an outer periphery of the shaft. The stator is located so as to surround an outer periphery of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor iron core including a plurality of rotor slots located at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction and rotor bars inserted into the rotor slots. Rotor slits communicate with outer peripheral sides of the rotor slots. The rotor slits have a width ws in a circumferential direction. The width ws is smaller than a height hs in a radial direction of the rotor slit, and when a rated current is denoted as I 1 , a turn ratio (primary/secondary) is denoted as Tr, and a magnetic permeability in a vacuum is denoted as μ 0 , a relationship of ws>μ 0 ×I 1 ×Tr/0.6 is met.

Claims (40)

1. A rotary electric machine comprising:

a shaft;

a rotor fixed to an outer periphery of the shaft; and

a stator located so as to surround an outer periphery of the rotor,

wherein the rotor includes:

a rotor iron core that includes a plurality of rotor slots located at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction; and

rotor bars inserted into the rotor slots,

wherein rotor slits communicate with outer peripheral sides of the rotor slots, the rotor slits having a width ws in a circumferential direction,

the width ws is smaller than a height hs in a radial direction of the rotor slit; and

when a rated current is denoted as I 1 , a turn ratio (primary/secondary) is denoted as Tr, and a magnetic permeability in a vacuum is denoted as μ 0 ,

a relationship of ws>μ 0 ×I 1 ×Tr/0.6 is met.

2. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the rotor slit has a maximum width of the width ws in the circumferential direction smaller than the height hs in the radial direction of the rotor slit, and

the rotor slit has a minimum width wsn of the width ws in the circumferential direction having a relationship of meeting:

wsn>μ 0 I 1× Tr/ 0.6.

3. The rotary electric machine according to claim 2 ,

wherein when a power frequency is denoted as f, a resistivity of the rotor bar is denoted as ρ, a cross-sectional area of the rotor bar is denoted as Sb, a slip is denoted as s, a starting current is denoted as Ish, and a starting torque is denoted as Tst, a relationship of:

( f /ρ) 0.5 ×Sb×s×Ish /( I 1× Tr×Tst )<0.00053 is met, and

the rotor bar has an average width wd up to a skin depth of a current flowing through the rotor bar at a staring operation meets a relationship of:

ws>wd.

4. The rotary electric machine according to claim 3 ,

wherein a relationship of wsn>wd is met.

5. The rotary electric machine according to claim 4 ,

wherein when an average width of the rotor slots up to the skin depth of the current flowing through the rotor bar at the staring operation is denoted as ws′, a relationship of:

ws′>μ 0 ×I 1× Tr/ 0.6 is met.

6. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the rotor slot has a cross-sectional shape of an asymmetrical shape in the circumferential direction, and

the rotor bar contacts the rotor iron core by only one surface in the circumferential direction on an outer peripheral side of the rotor bar and up to a skin depth where a starting current flows at a staring operation.

7. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the rotor bar has a cross-sectional shape of an asymmetrical shape in the circumferential direction, and

the rotor bar contacts the rotor iron core by only one surface in the circumferential direction on an outer peripheral side of the rotor bar and up to a skin depth where a starting current flows at a staring operation.

8. The rotary electric machine according to claim 7 ,

wherein the rotor slots are formed into a shape approximately symmetrical in the circumferential direction.

9. The rotary electric machine according to claim 6 ,

wherein the rotor bar has an outer peripheral surface brought in contact with the rotor iron core.

10. A drive system comprising:

the rotary electric machine according to claim 1 ;

a load driven by the rotary electric machine; and

a power supply configured to supply the rotary electric machine with an electric power, wherein

the rotary electric machine is started by the power supply by full voltage starting.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Jan 30, 2020
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: HITACHI INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 051758/0373 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2018
From: NISHIHAMA, KAZUO; SAWAHATA, MASANORI; KOYAMA, TAKAYUKI; IMURA, MAKOTO; YOSHITAKE, YUUICHIROU; SUGIMOTO, KENICHI; UEDA, KENGO
To: HITACHI, LTD.
Reel/Frame 047327/0574 →