Rotary electric machine
A rotary electric machine that includes a stator including a stator core and a coil, and including a radial protrusion for fastening, and a case that supports the stator core. The case includes a fastening portion to which the radial protrusion is fastened, paired stator holding portions located on respective sides of the fastening portion when viewed in an axial direction, and forming respective curved holding surfaces extending in the axial direction and abutting against or facing an outer peripheral surface of the stator core in a radial direction, and axial stator cooling oil passages formed in the respective paired stator holding portions.
1 . A rotary electric machine comprising:
a stator including a stator core and a coil, and including a radial protrusion for fastening; and
a case that supports the stator core, wherein
the case includes:
a fastening portion to which the radial protrusion is fastened;
paired stator holding portions located on respective sides of the fastening portion when viewed in an axial direction, and forming respective curved holding surfaces extending in the axial direction and abutting against or facing an outer peripheral surface of the stator core in a radial direction;
an axial stator cooling oil passage formed in each of the paired stator holding portions, wherein the stator cooling oil passage has a first oil hole through which oil is dischargeable toward the stator core or a coil end on one axial side;
a communicating passage that communicates with the stator cooling oil passages on the other axial side, wherein the communicating passage has a third oil hole through which oil is dischargeable toward a coil end on the other axial side of the coil, the third oil hole facing the coil end on the other axial side of the coil in the axial direction; and
each stator holding portion of the paired stator holding portions has a single body that includes both the respective curved holding surface that has a substantially same curve as the outer peripheral surface of the stator core in order to match a curve of the outer peripheral surface of the stator core, and the axial stator cooling oil passage.
2 . The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein radially innermost portions of the stator cooling oil passages are closer to a central axis of the stator core in the radial direction than a radially outermost portion of the radial protrusion.
3 . The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the case includes a side wall portion adjoining each of the paired stator holding portions in the axial direction from the other axial side, and spaced farther away from a central axis of the stator core in the radial direction than the curved holding surfaces,
the stator cooling oil passage is also formed in the side wall portion continuously from the side wall portion to each of the paired stator holding portions, and
the side wall portion has a second oil hole through which oil in the stator cooling oil passage is dischargeable toward a coil end on the other axial side of the coil, the second oil hole facing the coil end on the other axial side of the coil in the radial direction.
4 . The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the case further includes paired tubular portions extending in the axial direction and adjoining the paired stator holding portions in the axial direction from the one axial side, and
the stator cooling oil passages are also formed in the paired tubular portions such that the stator cooling oil passages continue from the paired stator holding portions to the paired tubular portions, respectively.
5 . The rotary electric machine according to claim 3 , wherein
the case further includes paired tubular portions extending in the axial direction and adjoining the paired stator holding portions in the axial direction from the one axial side, and
the stator cooling oil passages are also formed in the paired tubular portions such that the stator cooling oil passages continue from the paired stator holding portions to the paired tubular portions, respectively.