Pump unit with cooling jacket for electric motor

• US 5,332,369 A
• Filed: 06/26/1992
• Issued: 07/26/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Grundfos A/S (Poul Due Jensens Fond)
• Original Assignee: Grundfos A/S (Poul Due Jensens Fond)
• Inventors: Jensen, Niels D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bertsch, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Basichas, Alfred
• Application Number:
  US07/904,786
• Time in Patent Office: 760 Days
• Field of Search: 417/366, 417/369, 417/371, 417/372, 417/423.8
• US Class Current: 417/369
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/06 the pump being electrically driven
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/0686 Mechanical details of the pump control unit pump control F04D15/00
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/5806 Cooling the drive system
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/5813 Cooling the control unit
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 17/30 Structural association of asynchronous induction motors with auxiliary electric devices influencing the characteristics of the motor or controlling the motor, e.g. with impedances or switches

Abstract

A pump unit especially for heat producing and heat distributing plant has an electric motor having a rotor which is sealed against the fluid conveyed by the pump unit. The electric motor which is cooled by the conveyed fluid drives a rotary pump for controlling the speed of the unit. Part of the stream of the conveyed fluid which is diverted for cooling the electric motor and the frequency converter, flows through a cooling jacket which receives the motor. The frequency converter is attached to the outside of the cooling jacket in heat conducting relationship therewith and the frequency converter and the motor are received in a common housing.

Claims

1. A pump unit, comprising:

a rotary pump for producing a stream of fluid to be conveyed by the pump unit;

an electric motor having a rotor drivingly connected to the rotary pump and being sealed against ingress of said fluid;

a cooling jacket circumferentially surrounding the electric motor for receiving fluid diverted from said fluid stream as cooling fluid;

a frequency converter for controlling the speed of the electric motor and being connected to an exterior portion of the cooling jacket in heat conducting relationship therewith; and

a common motor housing receiving the frequency converter and the electric motor.

2. A pump unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cooling jacket is made of deep drawn nickel-chromium steel plate, and includes a flange opening fusing the rotary pump.

3. A pump unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cooling jacket defines a cylindrical annular chamber, the electric motor having a stator having a laminated core resting against said jacket.

4. A pump unit as claimed in claim 1, comprising a heat distributor connecting heat loss producing components of the frequency converter to the cooling jacket in heat conducting relationship therewith.

5. A pump unit as claimed in claim 4, wherein the heat distributor is locked about an outer circumference of the cooling jacket.

6. A pump unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein a flange at one end of the cooling jacket is clamped between a housing and a housing for the motor of the rotary pump.

7. A pump unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the motor housing has a flange-like part having a front face connecting the cooling jacket with a housing of the rotary pump.

8. A pump unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cooling jacket has a front face facing the rotary pump, having at least one inlet and one outlet for said cooling fluid.

9. A pump unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein a temperature measuring device is disposed on an exterior portion of the cooling jacket for monitoring a cooling effect of the cooling fluid.

10. A pump unit as claimed in claim 4, wherein a temperature measuring device is disposed on the heat distributor for monitoring a cooling effect of the cooling fluid.