Granted Patent B2

US 12,316,172 · App. 17/295,185 · Granted May 27, 2025

Inventors: Jan-Dirk Reimers (Aachen, DE); Rik De Doncker (Aachen, DE); Tobias Berthold (Düren, DE); Tobias Lange (Aachen, DE); Claude Pascal Weiss (Aachen, DE)

Assignee: RHEINISCH-WESTFALISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE (RWTH) AACHEN

H02K15/022H02K1/246

Abstract

Claims (7)

1. A synchronous reluctance motor comprising a rotor, wherein the rotor is free of a permanent magnet and comprises rotor sheets consisting of soft magnetic material, wherein the rotor sheets comprise inner barriers for flux guidance, wherein recesses are formed at an outer side of the rotor sheets in a radial extension opposite to the inner barriers, wherein the recesses each create a barrier web of a defined thickness between the recesses and the inner barriers, wherein the barrier web extends in a circumferential direction of the rotor sheets and separates the inner barriers from the recesses, wherein the web thickness is uniform over the circumference of the rotor, wherein the outer side of the rotor sheets defines a central recess opposite a single inner barrier, the central recess separated a circumferential distance from the barrier web, wherein a circumference of an outer rotor contour of each of the rotor sheets is defined by an outer thickness of a barrier extension wherein the barrier extension is formed at the outer side of the rotor sheets opposite to the inner barriers, and wherein the outer rotor contour is formed by machining the rotor on only an outer thickness of the barrier extension at the outer side of the rotor away from the areas of the barrier web to the final dimension by turning, such that the web thickness stays uniform over the circumference of the rotor.

2. The synchronous reluctance motor according to claim 1 , wherein the barrier extension has an eccentricity with respect to an arrangement of the barrier webs.

3. The synchronous reluctance motor according to claim 1 , wherein the electric machine is designed to incorporate the rotor as an external or internal rotor.

4. The synchronous reluctance motor according to claim 1 , wherein the rotor sheets are designed as segmented rotor sheets and the rotor is assembled of corresponding segments.

5. The synchronous reluctance motor according to claim 1 , in which the rotor is manipulated by means of magnetic material in a d-axis and a q-axis in addition to a flux guidance of the inner barriers.

6. A method for producing a rotor for an electric machine in the form of a reluctance machine which is operated as a synchronous reluctance machine, wherein the rotor comprises rotor sheets which comprise barriers, for flux guidance, and wherein recesses are formed at an outer side of the rotor sheets in a radial extension opposite to the barriers, which respectively allow a barrier web of a defined web thickness to be formed between the recesses and the barriers, wherein a circumference of an outer rotor contour of each of the rotor sheets is defined by an outer thickness of a barrier extension, wherein the barrier web extends in a circumferential direction of the rotor sheets and separates the barriers from the recesses, wherein the web thickness is preset over the circumference of the rotor, wherein the outer side of the rotor sheets defines a central recess opposite a single barrier, the central recess separated a circumferential distance from the barrier web, wherein the method comprises machining the outer side of the rotor on only an outer thickness of the barrier extension at the outer side of the rotor away from the areas of the barrier web, such that the web thickness stays uniform over the circumference of the rotor.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the recesses are formed by at least one laser cutting, punching, or eroding.

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