IP Library Granted Patent US 12,224,639
Granted Patent B2
US 12,224,639 · App. 17/895,856 · Granted Feb 11, 2025

Rotor for an externally excited synchronous machine

Inventors: Martin Gerngroß (Kinding, DE); Lars Wetterau (Ingolstadt, DE)
Assignee: AUDI AG
H02K3/527H02K3/18H02K3/522
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Patent No.
US 12,224,639
App. No.
17/895,856
Granted
Feb 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A star disc has integrated current busbars for the interconnecting of rotor windings. A rotor may comprise the star disc, and a method may comprise producing the rotor.

Claims (24)

1. A star disc for a rotor of an externally excited synchronous machine, comprising:

a surface of the star disc that is formed of plastic, in which current busbars are embedded,

the current busbars connecting in electrically conductive manner a pole shoe or a groove of the star disc to an adjacent pole shoe or an adjacent groove of the star disc, and

the current busbars extending to a radially outward free end of a respective pole of the star disc opposite a base end of the pole and including, at their two ends respectively, a contacting element to receive a winding wire protruding from the surface of the star disc.

2. The star disc according to claim 1 , wherein the current busbars are embedded by injection molding in the star disc.

3. The star disc according to claim 1 , wherein the poles of the star disc comprise support structures for guiding and bracing of a winding wire.

4. The star disc according to claim 1 , wherein at least one current busbar leads from the pole shoe of at least one pole to a yoke of the star disc adjacent to the pole.

5. The star disc according to claim 1 , wherein at least one current busbar leads from the pole shoe of at least one pole to the pole shoe of a pole of the star disc which is clockwise adjacent to the pole.

6. The star disc according to claim 1 , wherein at least one current busbar leads from the foot of at least one pole to the foot of a clockwise adjacent pole of the star disc.

7. The star disc according to claim 1 , wherein the current busbars are arranged such that they allow a winding of all poles with the same direction of rotation and at the same time make possible parallel current directions in the grooves of the star disc.

8. A rotor of an externally excited synchronous machine, comprising:

two star discs, which are arranged on a rotor axis at opposite end faces of a laminated stack of the rotor,

wherein at least one of the two star discs is a star disc including:

a surface of the star disc that is formed of plastic, in which current busbars are embedded,

the current busbars connecting in electrically conductive manner a pole shoe or a groove of the star disc to an adjacent pole shoe or an adjacent groove of the star disc, and

the current busbars extending to a radially outward free end of a respective pole of the star disc opposite a base end of the pole and including, at their two ends respectively, a contacting element to receive a winding wire protruding from the surface of the star disc.

9. A method for producing a rotor of an externally excited synchronous machine, comprising:

arranging two star discs at opposite end faces of a laminated stack of the rotor, and

winding the poles of the star discs and the laminated stacks with a winding wire to form a trapezoidally orthocyclic winding,

wherein at least one of the two star discs is a star disc including:

a surface of the star disc that is formed of plastic, in which current busbars are embedded;

the current busbars connecting in electrically conductive manner a pole shoe or a groove of the star disc to an adjacent pole shoe or an adjacent groove of the star disc, and

the current busbars extending to a radially outward free end of a respective pole of the star disc opposite a base end of the pole and including, at their two ends respectively, a contacting element to receive a winding wire protruding from the surface of the star disc.

10. The method according to claim 9 , in which multiple poles of the rotor are wound at the same time and in the same winding direction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 2, 2023
From: WETTERAU, LARS; GERNGROSS, MARTIN
To: AUDI AG
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Priority Claims (1)
DE 102021122066.1 · Aug 26, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230063773A1 · Mar 2, 2023
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