ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE

• US 20130062978A1
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: YAMAJI, Masato, IKUTA, Hiroyuki
• Application Number:
  US13/612,987
• Publication Number:
  US 20130062978A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/71
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/38 around winding heads, equalising connectors, or connections thereto

Abstract

The electric rotating machine includes a cooling means for supplying liquid coolant to the stator winding. The stator winding includes a plurality of conductor segments each having a pair of in-slot portions, a turn portion connecting the in-slot portions and skew portions respectively extending from the in-slot portions. Joint portions where distal end portions of respective corresponding two of the skew portions are joined to each other are formed on one axial end side of the stator core. The joint portions are disposed at a substantially constant pitch and in multiple circular rings. The joint portions are also disposed in a plurality of rows in the axial direction, each row of the joint portions being covered and bridged together by an insulating resin member. A gap is provided between each circumferentially adjacent two of the rows of the joint portions.

Claims

1. An electric rotating machine comprising:

a rotor;

a stator including a stator core disposed facing the rotor and a stator winding wound around the stator core; and

a cooling means for supplying liquid coolant to the stator winding to cool the stator winding,

wherein

the stator winding includes a plurality of conductor segments each having a first in-slot portion accommodated in a first one of slots formed in the stator core and a second in-slot portion accommodated in a second one of the slots, and first and second coil end portions respectively projecting from the first and second ones of the slots in an axial direction of the stator core and extending in a circumferential direction of the stator core,

the first coil end portion includes a turn portion connecting the first and second in-slot portions on a first axial end side of the stator core,

the second coil end portion includes a skew portion intersecting with a skew portion of another one of the conductor segments on a second axial end side of the stator core,

a plurality of joint portions where distal end portions of respective corresponding two of the skew portions are joined to each other are formed on the second axial end side of the stator core, the joint portions have a substantially same axial height and being disposed at a substantially constant pitch and in multiple circular rings,

the joint portions are disposed in a plurality of rows in the axial direction, each row of the joint portions being covered and bridged together by an insulating resin member, and

a gap is provided between each circumferentially adjacent two of the rows of the joint portions.

2. The electric rotating machine according to claim 1, wherein each of the insulating resin members covering the rows of the joint portions is formed so as to be uneven in at least one of circumferentially side surfaces and an axial end surface thereof.

3. The electric rotating machine according to claim 1, wherein a thickness in the axial direction of the stator core is thicker than a thickness in the axial direction of the rotor, and axial ends of the rotor are respectively located at positions axially opposite to the first and second coil end portions of the stator winding, respectively.