IP Library Granted Patent US 9,509,185
Granted Patent B2
US 9,509,185 · App. 13/832,623 · Granted Nov 29, 2016

Rotor with permanent excitation including permanent magnets and soft-magnetic flux conducting elements therebetween, electric machine having such a rotor and manufacturing method for the rotor

Inventors: Daniel Mader (Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale, DE); Rolf Vollmer (Gersfeld, DE)
Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
H02K1/28H02K1/2773H02K15/03H02K2213/03Y10T29/49012
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Patent No.
US 9,509,185
App. No.
13/832,623
Granted
Nov 29, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A rotor includes a shaft, a plurality of permanent magnets arranged around the shaft in a circumferential direction for permanent excitation and attached to the shaft by an adhesive bond, and a flux conducting device provided for conducting a magnetic flux of the permanent magnets. The flux conducting device has a plurality of soft-magnetic flux conducting elements. Each flux conducting element is placed between two of the permanent magnets and adhesively bonded thereto.

Claims (26)

1. A rotor, comprising:

a shaft;

a plurality of permanent magnets arranged around the shaft in a circumferential direction for permanent excitation and attached to the shaft by an adhesive; and

a flux conducting device provided for conducting a magnetic flux of the permanent magnets, said flux conducting device having a plurality of soft-magnetic flux conducting elements, each of the flux conducting elements being placed circumferentially between two neighboring ones of the permanent magnets and circumferentially adhesively bonded to the two neighboring permanent magnets by two adhesive layers, each of the flux conducting elements being constructed so as to fill completely and without interruption a space between the two adhesive layers which circumferentially connect each of the flux conducting elements to the two neighboring permanent magnets,

wherein the permanent magnets are acted upon by a contact force applied via the flux conducting elements so that the flux conducting elements are held in place only indirectly on the shaft by way of the permanent magnets.

2. The rotor of claim 1 , wherein the rotor has perpendicular to its axis of rotation a cross-section in which the permanent magnets are arranged in a star shape on the shaft, and the flux conducting elements are arranged in a wedge shape between the permanent magnets.

3. The rotor of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the permanent magnets has a magnetization pointing in the circumferential direction in relation to an axis of rotation of the rotor.

4. The rotor of claim 1 , wherein the permanent magnets have a magnetization pointing in the circumferential direction in relation to an axis of rotation of the rotor.

5. The rotor of claim 1 , wherein the flux conducting element is adhesively bonded to the two permanent magnets by an adhesive layer having in the circumferential direction a thickness of 0.05 mm to 0.25 mm.

6. The rotor of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the flux conducting elements has a surface which bounds the flux conducting element in a radial direction and has in the circumferential direction a curvature defined by a curvature radius that is smaller than an enveloping circle radius of an enveloping circle which describes a maximum outer circumference of the rotor in the circumferential direction.

7. The rotor of claim 6 , wherein the curvature radius lies in a range between 50 and 100 percent of a value of the enveloping circle radius.

8. The rotor of claim 1 , wherein each of the flux conducting elements radially covers two of the permanent magnets between which it is located and touches the two permanent magnets in a covering zone.

9. The rotor of claim 1 , wherein the adhesive bond of each of the permanent magnets to the shaft has a thickness of less than 0.5 mm in a radial direction and a tolerance field of less than 0.06 mm.

10. The rotor of claim 1 , further comprising an end plate arranged at at least one front face of the rotor and surrounding the shaft, said end plate having straps for force-fit the permanent magnets to the shaft.

11. The rotor of claim 10 , wherein the end plate has a diameter which is smaller than a diameter of a package of flux conducting elements and permanent magnets, said braces being attached to the end plate.

12. The rotor of claim 1 , further comprising braces arranged at radially outer surfaces of the flux conducting elements.

13. The rotor of claim 12 , wherein the braces include reinforced glass fibers.

14. The rotor of claim 1 , wherein a number of magnetic poles formed on an outside face of the rotor is greater than 6.

15. The rotor of claim 1 , wherein the permanent magnets are ferrite magnets.

16. An electric machine, comprising a rotor including a shaft, a plurality of permanent magnets arranged around the shaft in a circumferential direction for permanent excitation and attached to the shaft by an adhesive bond, and a flux conducting device provided for conducting a magnetic flux of the permanent magnets, said flux conducting device having a plurality of soft-magnetic flux conducting elements, each of the flux conducting elements being placed circumferentially between two neighboring ones of the permanent magnets and circumferentially adhesively bonded to the two neighboring permanent magnets by two adhesive layers, each of the flux conducting elements being constructed so as to fill completely and without interruptions a space between the two adhesive layers which circumferentially connect each of the flux conducting element to the two neighboring permanent magnets, wherein the permanent magnets are acted upon by a contact force applied via the flux conducting elements so that the flux conducting elements are held in place only indirectly on the shaft by way of the permanent magnets.

17. The electric machine of claim 16 , constructed in the form of a synchronous machine or as a servomotor or as a drive of an electrically driven passenger vehicle.

18. A method for manufacturing a rotor, comprising:

adhesively bonding permanent magnets to a shaft,

arranging flux conducting elements in spaces between the permanent magnets;

adhesively bonding the flux conducting elements to the permanent magnets by adhesive layers so that each of the flux conducting elements is placed circumferentially between two neighboring ones of the permanent magnets and circumferentially adhesively bonded to the two neighboring permanent magnets by two adhesive layers, and each of the flux conducting elements is constructed so as to fill completely and without interruptions a space between the two adhesive layers which circumferentially connect each of the flux conducting element to the two neighboring permanent magnets; and

acting upon the permanent magnets by a contact force applied via the flux conducting elements so that the flux conducting elements are held in place only indirectly on the shaft by way of the permanent magnets.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 26, 2013
From: MADER, DANIEL; VOLLMER, ROLF
To: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
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Priority Claims (1)
EP 12159917 · Mar 16, 2012 · regional
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20130241338A1 · Sep 19, 2013