BUSBAR THAT CAN BE INTEGRATED INTO AN ELECTRIC MOTOR

• US 20140159519A1
• Filed: 03/18/2013
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mersen France SB SAS (Mersen SA)
• Original Assignee: Mersen France SB SAS (Mersen SA)
• Inventors: FORVEILLE, Herve, ANNE, Francois
• Application Number:
  US13/845,141
• Publication Number:
  US 20140159519A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/71
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2203/09 Machines characterised by wiring elements other than wires, e.g. bus rings, for connecting the winding terminations
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/28 Layout of windings or of connections between windings windings for pole-changing H02K17/06, H02K17/14, H02K19/12, H02K19/32
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/522 for generally annular cores with salient poles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49204 Contact or terminal manufacturing

Abstract

This busbar (1) includes at least two conductive elements (10, 16, 20, 26, 30, 36, 40) which include electrical connection elements (14, 24, 34, 18, 28, 38, 44) of windings belonging to the stator of an electric machine. All of the conductive elements (10, 16, 20, 26, 30, 36, 40) are each cut out from a plate of electrically conduction material, bent according to a direction perpendicular to the thickness of the plate and radially superimposed in relation to a central axis (Y-Y) that is common to the conductive elements (10, 16, 20, 26, 30, 36, 40).

Claims

1. Busbar comprising at least two conductive elements which comprise electrical connection means of windings belonging to the stator of an electric machine, wherein all of the conductive are each cut out of a plate of electrically conductive material, bent according to a direction perpendicular to the thickness of the plate and radially superimposed in relation to a central axis common to the conductive elements.

2. Busbar according to claim 1, wherein all of the conductive elements of the busbar have a circular profile.

3. Busbar according to claim 1, wherein all of the conductive elements of the busbar have a polygonal profile.

4. Busbar as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the conductive elements of the busbar extends on an angle strictly less than 360°

around the common central axis.

5. Busbar as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electrical connection means are output lugs all oriented in the same direction, along the common axis and in relation to the conductive elements.

6. Busbar as claimed in claim 1, wherein the busbar comprises at least one layer of electrical insulation which is radially arranged between the two conductive elements of each pair of conductive elements radially superimposed in relation to the central axis or inside the conductive element the most internal to the busbar or around the conductive element the most external to the busbar.

7. Electric machine comprising:

a stator which comprises a cylindrical and hollow core and at least two groups of at least one winding, respectively associated with a phase of the electric machine,

a rotor which rotates coaxially inside the stator,

wherein the electric machine further comprises a busbar in accordance with claim 1, and of which the common central axis is confounded with the axis of the stator.

8. Electric machine according to claim 7 wherein each group of windings comprises several windings and in that several conductive elements of the busbar are connected to the windings of the same group.

9. Electric machine according to claim 7, wherein all of the groups of windings of the stator are connected to a neutral conductor of the busbar.

10. Electric machine according to claim 7, wherein the output lugs of the conductive elements are angularly arranged around the axis of the stator in such a way that, in the assembled configuration of the busbar on the stator, each output lug is located axially at the opposite of at least one output of a winding.

11. Method for manufacturing a busbar in accordance with claim 1, wherein it comprises steps consisting in:

a) cutting out from an electrically conductive plate a strip of material for each conductive element.

b) affixing a layer of electrical insulation on each strip

c) bending each strip according to a direction perpendicular to its thickness in such a way as to centre the strip on an axis.

12. Method according to claim 11, wherein the latter further comprises a step d) posterior to the step c), consisting in aligning all of the axes whereon the strips are centred in order to form a common central axis, then in nesting the conductive elements by radial superposition of the conductive elements around the common axis.

13. Method according to claim 11, wherein it further comprises a step e), posterior to the step b) and prior to the step c), consisting in stacking the conductive elements on one another, according to a direction perpendicular to their thickness.