Method for measuring a stator core of an electric machine and measuring device

• US 10,458,949 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH (GE Aerospace)
• Original Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH (GE Aerospace)
• Inventors: Hobelsberger, Maximilian
• Primary Examiner(s): Assouad, Patrick
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pretlow, Demetrius R
• Application Number:
  US15/180,669
• Publication Number:
  US 20160370324A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,233 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/82 for investigating the presence of flaws
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/34 Testing dynamo-electric machines
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/52 Testing for short-circuits, leakage current or ground faults
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 11/25 Devices for sensing temperature, or actuated thereby

Abstract

A method for measuring a stator core of an electrical machine includes the steps of winding at least one excitation coil around the stator core, applying a discontinuous voltage to the excitation coil(s) to magnetically excite the stator core, and measuring a quantity of the magnetically excited stator core. Further, a corresponding measuring device is disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for measuring a stator core of an electrical machine comprising:

winding at least one excitation coil around the stator core;

applying, via an excitation device comprising at least a capacitor a discontinuous excitation voltage to the at least one excitation coil to magnetically excite the stator core to obtain magnetic excitation of the stator core;

measuring with at least one detecting device a temperature quantity or a vibration quantity of the magnetically excited stator core; and

determining interlaminar laminate shorts of the stator core based on extraordinary values of the detected vibration quantity of the magnetically excited stator core measurement, or determining laminated shorts of the stator core based on the temperature quantity of the magnetically excited stator core measurement, the extraordinary values of detected vibrations indicate that a stability of the stator core diverges at a specific spot.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the waveform of the discontinuous excitation voltage is rectangular, burst, triangular, or sinusoidal.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the discontinuous excitation voltage has pulses of a time duration between 2 ms and 5 ms with a rate between 50 pulses and 100 pulses per second.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the excitation device creates the discontinuous excitation voltage with a frequency of 50 Hz or 60 Hz.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the excitation device provides the discontinuous excitation voltage to generate a magnetic flux density B of the stator core of approximately 1.5 Tesla.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the at least a capacitor provides the discontinuous excitation voltage by discharging.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the at least a capacitor is fed by two power supplies coupled together.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein measuring the quantity of the magnetically excited stator core is by the at least one detecting device, the at least one detecting device comprising an acoustic device measures vibrations of the stator core caused by the magnetic excitation to obtain vibration measurements, and wherein the at least one detecting device or a calculation unit is configured to determine interlaminar laminate shorts of the stator core based on the extraordinary values of detected vibration quantity measurements.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the acoustic device comprises at least a microphone.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein measuring the quantity of the magnetically excited stator core is by the at least one detecting device, the at least one detecting device comprising an optical device measures temperature differences at the stator core caused by the magnetic excitation to obtain temperature measurements, and wherein the at least one detecting device or a calculation unit is configured to determine interlaminar laminate shorts based on the temperature measurements.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the discontinuous excitation voltage has pulses of a time duration between 5 ms and 20 ms.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the discontinuous excitation voltage has pulses of a time duration between 2 ms and 10 ms.

13. A measuring device for measuring a laminated stator core of an electrical machine comprising:

at least one excitation coil wound around the stator core;

an excitation device comprising at least a capacitor for magnetically exciting the stator core to obtain magnetic excitation of the stator core which comprises the at least one excitation coil wound around the stator core,

the excitation device configured to generate a discontinuous voltage applicable to the at least one excitation coil to magnetically excite the stator core;

at least one detection device configured to measure a temperature quantity or a vibration quantity of the magnetically excited stator core to obtain measurements; and

a calculation unit configured to determine properties of the stator core based on the measurements of the at least one detection device to determine interlaminar laminate shorts of the stator core based on extraordinary values of detected vibration quantity measurements that indicate that a stability of the stator core diverges at a specific spot, or to determine laminated shorts of the stator core based on temperature quantity measurements.

14. The measuring device according to claim 13, wherein the at least one detection device comprises a microphone which measures vibrations of the stator core caused by the magnetic excitation and the calculation unit determines the interlaminar laminate shorts of the stator core via the extraordinary values of detected vibration quantity measurements.

15. The measuring device according to claim 13, wherein the at least one detection device comprises an optical device which measures temperature differences at the stator core caused by the magnetic excitation and the calculation unit determines laminated shorts of the stator core.

16. The measuring device according to claim 13, wherein the at least one detection device comprises an acoustic device which measures vibrations of the stator core caused by magnetic excitation.