Magnetic Shield for Stator Core End Structures of Electric Rotating Machine

• US 20110241455A1
• Filed: 02/14/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: YOSHIDA, Jun, Nakahara, Akihito, Komura, Akiyoshi
• Application Number:
  US13/026,706
• Publication Number:
  US 20110241455A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/44
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/12 Stationary parts of the magnetic circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2213/03 Machines characterised by numerical values, ranges, mathematical expressions or similar information
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/42 Means for preventing or reducing eddy-current losses in the winding heads, e.g. by shielding

Abstract

In an electric rotating machine, for reducing losses that occur in clamping plates and their shield, the electric rotating machine includes a rotor formed with field winding wound around a rotor core, a stator placed opposite to the rotor at a predetermined space and formed with stator winding wound around a stator core formed by stacking multiple magnetic steel sheets in the axial direction, clamping plates clamping and retaining the stator core from both axial end parts thereof in the stacking direction of the magnetic steel sheets, and a magnetic shield placed around the clamping plates to shield flux leakage flowing into the clamping plates, and the magnetic shield is formed of a cylinder of stacked steel sheets stacked in a form of a cylinder about the rotor shaft and powder magnetic core segments and powder magnetic core segments having portions which are stuck to the cylinder of stacked steel sheets on the stacking cross section, and arranged to cover side surfaces and an inner surface of radial direction of the clamping plates.

Claims

1. An electric rotating machine comprising a rotor formed with field winding wound around a rotor core, a stator placed opposite to the rotor at a predetermined space and formed with stator winding wound around a stator core formed by stacking a plurality of magnetic steel sheets in an axial direction, clamping plates clamping and retaining the stator core from both axial end parts thereof in a stacking direction of magnetic steel sheets, and a magnetic shield placed around the clamping plates to shield flux leakage flowing into the clamping plates,

wherein said magnetic shield is formed of a cylinder of stacked steel sheets stacked in a form of a cylinder about a rotor shaft and powder magnetic core segments having portions which are stuck to said cylinder of stacked steel sheets on a stacking cross section, and arranged to cover side surfaces and inner surface of radial direction of the clamping plates.

2. The electric rotating machine according to claim 1, wherein air gaps or nonmagnetic insulators are provided between said cylinder of stacked steel sheets and said clamping plates and between said cylinder of stacked steel sheets and said powder magnetic core segments.

3. The electric rotating machine according to claim 1, wherein surfaces of said powder magnetic core segments are coated with resin.

4. The electric rotating machine according to claim 1, wherein said powder magnetic core segments are housed in a resin case one by one or plural by plural.

5. The electric rotating machine according to claim 4, wherein a bolt hole is bored in said resin case to fasten the resin case on the clamping plate using a bolt in the bolt hole.

6. The electric rotating machine according to claim 1, wherein a cylinder made of an amorphous core is used instead of said cylinder of stacked steel sheets.

7. The electric rotating machine according to claim 1, wherein said magnetic shield comprising said cylinder of stacked steel sheets and said powder magnetic core segments is retained by a plurality of plates which support coils placed on said clamping plates in a circumferential direction.

8. The electric rotating machine according to claim 1, wherein notches are provided in the axial direction in duct spacers located between said clamping plates and said stator core and projections are formed in said powder magnetic core segments so that said projections of said powder magnetic core segments are fitted in said notches of said duct spacers.

9. The electric rotating machine according to claim 1, wherein said powder magnetic core segments and said duct spacers are jointed through jigs.

10. The electric rotating machine according to claim 1, wherein conductor plates are placed between said magnetic shield and said clamping plates.

11. The electric rotating machine according to claim 10, wherein said conductor plates are also placed on surfaces of said clamping plates.

12. The electric rotating machine according to claim 1, comprising the magnetic shield in which both ends of said cylinder of stacked steel sheets in the stacking direction are covered with insulators.

13. The electric rotating machine according to claim 12, wherein an outer side of said magnetic shield is covered with a powder magnetic core cylinder to stick and retain said cylinder of stacked steel sheets and said powder magnetic core cylinder together in the radial direction through holes bored in plates which support coils retaining the stator winding.

14. The electric rotating machine according to claim 2, wherein said air gaps or insulators between said cylinder of stacked steel sheets and said clamping plates have dimensions in the stacking direction of said cylinder of stacked steel sheets, and if an coefficient of 0.6 is A, a square of a radius of said cylinder of stacked steel sheets is B, an inverse of relative permeability of said cylinder of stacked steel sheets is C, and an inverse of a stacking thickness of said cylinder of stacked steel sheets is D, said dimensions are larger than a product of A, B, C and D.

15. The electric rotating machine according to claim 2, wherein said air gaps or insulators between said cylinder of stacked steel sheets and said powder magnetic core segments have dimensions in the stacking direction of said cylinder of stacked steel sheets, and if a flux path length to a joint surface between said powder magnetic core segments and said cylinder of stacked steel sheets is A, an inverse of relative permeability of the powder magnetic core segments is B, and a value obtained by dividing a cross-section area of a flux path in said air gaps or insulators by a cross-section area of a flux path in said powder magnetic core segments is C, said dimensions are larger than a product of A, B and C.

16. The electric rotating machine according to claim 15, wherein if an coefficient of 1.2 is A, a square of a length of said powder magnetic core segment in the radial direction is B, an inverse of a thickness of said powder magnetic core segments in the axial direction is C, and an inverse of relative permeability of said powder magnetic core segments is D, said dimensions of said air gaps or insulators are set equal to or more than a product of A, B, C and D, and said dimensions are those of the stacking direction of said cylinder of stacked steel sheets.

17. An electric rotating machine comprising a rotor formed with field winding wound around a rotor core, a stator placed opposite to said rotor at a predetermined space and formed with stator winding wound around a stator core formed by stacking a plurality of magnetic steel sheets in an axial direction, clamping plates clamping and retaining said stator core from both axial end parts thereof in a stacking direction of the magnetic steel sheets, and a magnetic shield placed around said clamping plates to shield flux leakage flowing into said clamping plates,

wherein said magnetic shield is formed of a first member and a second member of a magnetic material, the first member is higher in magnetic permeability than said clamping plates and low in conductivity and has isotropically magnetic properties, the second member is higher in magnetic permeability than the first member and anisotropic in conductivity, and the second member assumes a form of a cylinder and has a joint surface to the first member in a direction in which the conductivity is high, the first member is placed on an axial end side and an inner side of radial direction of the second member.