IP Library Granted Patent US 10,658,904
Granted Patent B2
US 10,658,904 · App. 16/134,514 · Granted May 19, 2020

Rotating electrical machine

Inventors: Seijiro Muramatsu (Yokohama, JP); Kenta Igarashi (Yokohama, JP); Keiji Fugane (Yokohama, JP); Kentaro Yasumatsu (Yokohama, JP); Shinji Waki (Yokohama, JP); Hirohide Murayama (Yokohama, JP); Toru Muto (Yokohama, JP); Chuanhong Fan (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
H02K9/16H02K3/50H02K5/20H02K5/225H02K7/1823H02K9/08F01D15/10H02K2203/06
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Patent No.
US 10,658,904
App. No.
16/134,514
Granted
May 19, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor; a stator; a high voltage bushing; power lines connecting the stator coil to the bushing; a support insulator that supports the power lines; a rotating electrical machine outer casing that contains at least the rotor, the stator and a connection portion between the stator coil and the power lines, and is filled with hydrogen gas; and a terminal box which communicates with the outer casing and is attached to a lower portion of the outer casing, the insulator installed in the terminal box, and terminal box containing at least the power lines supported by the insulator and a part of the bushing connected to the supported power lines. The insulator is installed vertically on a bottom face of the terminal box, and the vertically installed insulator and a portion of the bushing in the terminal box are disposed in parallel with each other.

Claims (38)

1. A rotating electrical machine comprising:

a rotor;

a stator that faces the rotor with a predetermined gap and includes a stator core and a stator coil;

a high voltage bushing that outputs electricity from the stator coil to an outside of the machine;

a plurality of power lines that connect the stator coil to the high voltage bushing to form an electrical path;

a support insulator that supports the power lines;

a rotating electrical machine outer casing that contains at least the rotor, the stator and a connection portion between the stator coil and the power lines, and is internally filled with a hydrogen gas; and

a terminal box which communicates with the rotating electrical machine outer casing and is attached to a lower portion of the rotating electrical machine outer casing, the support insulator installed in the terminal box, and the terminal box containing at least the power lines supported by the support insulator and a part of the high voltage bushing connected to the supported power lines,

wherein the support insulator is installed vertically on a bottom face of the terminal box, and

wherein the support insulator installed vertically and a portion of the high voltage bushing located in the terminal box are disposed in parallel with each other.

2. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the power lines include a connection ring that is connected to the stator coil, an armature lead that is connected to the high voltage bushing, and a lead wire that connects the connection ring to the armature lead, and

wherein the support insulator supports the armature lead.

3. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 2 ,

wherein the lead wire and the armature lead are connected to each other through a flexible lead.

4. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 3 ,

wherein the high voltage bushing includes:

an insulation cylinder having a gas inlet port, a hollow inside, and a hole in a lower portion of the insulation cylinder; and

an external copper tube that covers an outer periphery of the insulation cylinder with a predetermined space and has an exhaust port,

wherein the hole communicates with the space between the insulation cylinder and the external copper tube and,

wherein a coolant gas enters through the inlet port of the insulation cylinder, flows downward through the hollow inside of the insulation cylinder, flows through the hole upward in the space between the insulation cylinder and the external copper tube, and is discharged from the exhaust port of the external copper tube.

5. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 4 ,

wherein the armature lead includes:

an elbow pipe that is connected to the exhaust port of the external copper tube and changes a flow direction of the coolant gas from a vertical direction to a horizontal direction; and

a copper pipe horizontally disposed, one end of which is connected to the elbow pipe and the other end of which is connected to a root component for the flexible lead, and

wherein the coolant gas exhausted upward from the exhaust port of the external copper tube flows into the elbow pipe, changes the flow direction from the vertical direction to the horizontal direction, enters the root component for the flexible lead through the copper pipe, merges with the coolant gas from above which has cooled the flexible lead at the root component for the flexible lead to flow downward, and passes through the support insulator installed vertically.

6. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 5 , comprising:

a duct included in an axial direction in the bottom face of the terminal box,

wherein the coolant gas passing through the support insulator enters the duct, and

wherein the coolant gas entering the duct flows upward through a lateral face duct on a lateral face of the terminal box, and is exhausted through an exhaust gas pipe in an upper portion of the terminal box.

7. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 6 , comprising:

six high voltage bushings, each of the high voltage bushings being according to claim 6 ;

six support insulators, each of the support insulators being according to claim 6 ; and

two ducts, each of the two ducts being according to claim 6 ,

wherein two rows of the high voltage bushings are disposed in the axial direction, each of the rows including three high voltage bushings in the horizontal direction of the rotating electrical machine, and

wherein the coolant gases passing through the six support insulators merge with each other at the bottom face of the terminal box and flows into the two ducts.

8. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 7 ,

wherein the coolant gases from two central support insulators of the six support insulators are divided into right and left, pass through a support-insulator exhaust-gas junction duct included in the horizontal direction in the bottom face of the terminal box, merge with the coolant gases from other four support insulators at ends of the six support insulators, flow toward the ducts, flow upward through the lateral face duct, and are exhausted through the exhaust gas pipe.

Assignments (5)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Nov 25, 2024
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI GENERATOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 069438/0941 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Sep 11, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 064854/0880 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVING PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11921683 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054975 FRAME: 0438. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 26, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063787/0867 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 13, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054975/0438 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 21, 2018
From: MURAMATSU, SEIJIRO; IGARASHI, KENTA; FUGANE, KEIJI; YASUMATSU, KENTARO; WAKI, SHINJI; MURAYAMA, HIROHIDE; MUTO, TORU; FAN, CHUANHONG
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 046940/0430 →