Method for repairing a cooling fluid box of an electric alternator stator bar

• US 5,809,632 A
• Filed: 07/12/1996
• Issued: 09/22/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jeumont Electric, Co.
• Original Assignee: Jeumont Industrie (Government of France)
• Inventors: Demarez, Christophe, Champagne, Alain, Farineau, Michel
• Primary Examiner(s): Eley, Timothy V.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Halpern, Benjamin M.
• Application Number:
  US08/679,044
• Time in Patent Office: 802 Days
• Field of Search: 29/402.03, 29/402.04, 29/402.09, 29/402.13, 29/402.16, 29/890.031, 29/596, 310/54, 310/59, 310/60, 310/64, 310/65, 310/42
• US Class Current: 29/596
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 15/0093 Manufacturing or repairing cooling fluid boxes, i.e. terminals of fluid cooled windings ensuring both electrical and fluid connection
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/24 with channels or ducts for cooling medium between the conductors
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49009 Dynamoelectric machine
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49352 Repairing, converting, servicing or salvaging
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49721 with disassembling
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49723 including reconditioning of part
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49732 by attaching repair preform, e.g., remaking, restoring, or patching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49737 Metallurgically attaching preform
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49742 Metallurgically attaching preform

Abstract

The invention concerns a method for repairing a cooling fluid box of the cooling circuit of an alternator stator bar, the imperviousness between the box and the stator bar being defective, wherein:

the cooling circuit (9, 12, 6, 7, 16) is disconnected,

the box (4) is cut along a plane approximately perpendicular to the axis (31) of the alternator,

imperviousness is established between the stator bar (3) and the box (4),

a cover (17) is secured to the box (4) along the cutting plane,

the stator bar is cooled during the imperviousness resumption and cover fixing operations,

the electric circuit of the stator bar (3) is re-established,

the cooling circuit of the stator bar is connected.

Claims

1. A method for repairing a cooling fluid box of a cooling circuit of an alternator stator bar, imperviousness between said box and said stator bar being defective, comprising the steps of:

disconnecting said cooling circuit,

cutting said box along a plane approximately perpendicular to an axis of the alternator and thereby disconnecting an electric circuit of the stator bar,

establishing imperviousness between the stator bar and the box,

securing a cover to the box along said cutting plane,

cooling the stator bar while imperviousness is established and the cover is secured,

re-establishing the electric circuit of the stator bar, and

connecting the cooling circuit of the stator bar.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the cooling fluid box has a bottom, the stator bar is formed of solid conductors and hollow conductors for circulation of cooling fluid, and solid conductors said solid and hollow conductors traversing the bottom of the cooling fluid box, and imperviousness between said box and the stator bar is established by placing an imperviousness material between said conductors and the bottom of the box.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the imperviousness material is a soldering joint.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the stator bar is cooled with the aid of hollow elements made of a metal possessing good heat conductivity and placed on both sides of the stator bar and in which a cooling liquid is made to circulate.

5. A method according to claim 4, wherein the cover is welded onto the cooling fluid box.

6. A method according to claim 5, wherein said cooling fluid box is cut along a cutting surface;

and before welding the cover, the cutting surface of that portion of the cooling fluid box left in place is straightened.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein a filler metal foil is placed between the surfaces of the weld joint between the cooling fluid box and the cover.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the cover is welded on the cooling fluid box by induction heating.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein a cooling fluid box of a second stator bar, electrically linked to the first-mentioned stator bar, is also cut, thereby disconnecting an electric circuit of the second stator bar, and further comprising the steps of welding a cover onto the cooling fluid box of said second stator bar, and re-establishing an electric circuit with the aid of a connector fixed between the covers.