Electrical machine having cooled laminated stator and rotor cores and windings
High-power electric machines must be intensively cooled. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure a high level of immunity to impurities. For this purpose, the rotor and stator sheet packs ( 41, 42, 61, 62 ) are embodied in two parts, thereby making it possible to carry out a two-sided ventilation, said parts being maintained separately in the middle by a ring ( 5, 7 ). Said ring ( 5, 7 ) is provided with ribs ( 51, 52, 71, 72 ) in such a way that radial flow channels are formed between partial sheet stacks and ensure corresponding flow rate. In another embodiment, monoblock sheet stacks are provided with cooling channel extensions on either side of the sheet stack. Said cooling extensions alternate on the axial cooling channels in the peripheral direction and transport heated coolant outwards in respectively opposite directions.
1. An electrical machine, comprising:
a housing;
a laminated stator core arranged in the housing and terminating in an end winding area; and
a laminated rotor core arranged in the housing and terminating in an end winding area,
wherein at least one member selected from the group consisting of the laminated stator core and the laminated rotor core has an axial cooling channel,
wherein at least one of the end winding areas accommodates an open-ended cooling channel protrusion fluidly extending the cooling channel of the member in axial prolongation for allowing a discharge of coolant in axial direction from the housing to the outside.
2. The electrical machine of claim 1 , wherein the housing includes a mounting plate, said member being the laminated stator core, with the cooling channel protrusion configured as a tube guided through the mounting plate.
3. The electrical machine of claim 1 , wherein the member is the laminated rotor core, and further comprising a rotor clamping ring assembly for maintaining integrity of the laminated rotor core, wherein the cooling channel protrusion is part of the rotor clamping ring assembly.
4. The electrical machine of claim 3 , wherein the housing includes a mounting plate, said rotor clamping ring assembly constructed to have a flow channel for guiding the coolant through the mounting plate, and further comprising a seal arranged between the rotor clamping ring assembly and the mounting plate.
5. The electrical machine of claim 1 , wherein the member has a plurality of said cooling channel in circumferential spaced-apart relationship, and further comprising a plurality of said cooling channel protrusion communicating with the plurality of cooling channels in one-to-one correspondence, wherein every other one of the cooling channels is connected to cooling channel protrusions on one end of the member, and the other one of the cooling channels is connected to cooling channel protrusions on an opposite end of the member.
6. A method for cooling an electrical machine, comprising the steps of:
passing a coolant through at least one axial cooling channel of a member selected from the group consisting of the laminated stator core and the laminated rotor core and disposed in a housing; and
transferring the coolant from the least one cooling channel through an open-ended cooling channel protrusion fluidly extending the cooling channel of the member in axial prolongation in an end winding area of the member for discharge of coolant in axial direction from the housing to the outside.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the coolant flows through a plurality of said axial cooling channel of the member in circumferential spaced-apart relationship such that coolant flows through the cooling channels alternately in opposite directions.