Alternator for vehicle

• US 5,955,810 A
• Filed: 05/26/1998
• Issued: 09/21/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Umeda, Atsushi, Kusase, Shin, Shiga, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Nestor
• Assistant Examiner(s): LE, DANG D
• Application Number:
  US09/084,293
• Time in Patent Office: 483 Days
• Field of Search: 310/254, 310/179, 310/260, 310/270, 310/58, 310/59, 310/65, 310/64, 310/63, 310/62, 310/180, 310/206, 310/208, 310/207, 310/205, 310/204, 310/203, 310/202, 310/201, 310/200, 310/5 1
• US Class Current: 310/208
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/165 Shape, form or location of the slots
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/243 of the claw-pole type
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 19/22 having windings each turn of which co-operates alternately with poles of opposite polarity, e.g. heteropolar generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 19/36 Structural association of synchronous generators with auxiliary electric devices influencing the characteristic of the generator or controlling the generator, e.g. with impedances or switches
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2201/06 Magnetic cores, or permanent magnets characterised by their skew
• 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 3/02 Windings characterised by the conductor material
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/12 arranged in slots
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/18 Windings for salient poles
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/24 with channels or ducts for cooling medium between the conductors
• 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 3/44 Protection against moisture or chemical attack; Windings specially adapted for operation in liquid or gas
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/50 Fastening of winding heads, equalising connectors, or connections thereto
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/528 of the claw-pole type
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/207 with openings in the casing specially adapted for ambient air
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/1008 structurally associated with the machine rotor H02K7/1012 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 9/06 with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft

Abstract

An alternator for a vehicle which maintains or improves the cooling performance and which reduces the fan noise caused by the interference between the cooling winds and the stator windings. An armature coil provided on a stator of the alternator includes an X-phase coil group, a Y-phase coil group, and a Z-phase coil group. Coil end groups are sets of coil ends forming bridge wires between slots. The coil end groups have stationary blade shapes which form passages for the cooling winds directed from a cooling fan on a rotor toward outlets in a frame. The sound of the interference between the cooling winds and the coil end groups is reduced while the cooling performance is enhanced.

Claims

1. An alternator for a vehicle, comprising:

a frame;

a stator fixed to the frame and having a stator iron core formed with a plurality of slots, the stator having a polyphase armature coil accommodated in the slots, the stator having ends in an axial direction of said core which are provided with coil end groups as sets of coil ends of the polyphase armature coil; and

a rotor opposing the stator;

wherein

the rotor has moving blades for providing a cooling medium toward the coil end groups;

the coil end groups include a plurality of stationary blade coil ends including;

first portions extending in axial directions from an outer layer of one of two said slots spaced from each other by a predetermined pitch;

second portions extending in axial directions from an inner layer of the other of the two slots; and

third portions located at axial-direction end portions of the coil end groups and extending radially to connect axial-direction end portions of the first portions and the second portions;

cooling medium passages are formed between the third portions of the stationary blade coil ends;

the third portions extend from ends of the second portions toward ends of the first portions, and extend in a radial direction and a circumferential direction of said core and incline in a direction of rotation of the moving blades from an inner side toward an outer side; and

the third portions form stationary blades cooperating with the moving blades of the rotor, which rotates together with the rotor, in axial-direction end surfaces of the coil end groups.

2. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein the stationary blades are formed by an arrangement of the plural coil ends.

3. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein the stationary blades are formed by flat rectangular shapes.

4. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein the stationary blades have thicknesses corresponding to thicknesses of the coil ends, and have widths greater than the thicknesses of the coil ends and extend along directions that the cooling medium flows.

5. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein the first portions and the second portions extend in circumferential direction so that said axial-direction end portions thereof are close to each other.

6. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein the stationary blades and the cooling medium of the coil end group passages have densities which are approximately uniform throughout circumferences thereof.

7. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein the stationary blades of the coil end groups have shapes approximately uniform throughout circumferences thereof.

8. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein the moving blades include fans provided on the rotor.

9. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein the coil end groups are formed on the two ends of the stator respectively, and the rotor is formed with moving blades corresponding to the coil end groups, respectively.

10. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein the armature coil has U-shaped segments each having two straight line portions and a U-shaped turn portion, the two straight line portions being accommodated in different slots respectively among the slots in the iron stator core, each of the U-shaped turn portions forming a coil end among the coil ends at an end of the stator iron core.

11. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein

the armature coil has a first three-phase connection coil and a second three-phase connection coil;

the first and second three-phase connection coils include short-pitch lap windings which are connected in an equal fashion as respective phases; and

the phases of the first and second three-phase connection coils are shifted by π

/3 (radian) and are provided on the iron stator core.

12. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein a number of the slots in the stator is two per pole and per phase.

13. An alternator according to claim 1, wherein passages for direct communication from an inner side to an outer side along said circumferential direction are formed between the third portions.

14. An alternator according to claim 13, wherein the first portions of the stationary blade coil ends are located at an outermost surface of the coil end groups, and the second portions of the stationary blade coil ends are located at an innermost surface of the coil end groups, and the third portions of the stationary blade coil ends are located at a most-distal axial-direction end surface of the coil end groups.

15. An alternator for a vehicle, comprising:

a stator including a stator iron core and a polyphase armature coil, the stator iron core having a plurality of slots, the polyphase armature coil being provided on the stator iron core and having coil end groups; and

a rotor for generating a rotating magnetic field intersecting the stator, the rotor having moving blades;

wherein

the coil end groups include a plurality of stationary blade coil ends, the stationary blade coil end including;

first portions extending in axial direction of said core from an outer layer of one of two said slots spaced from each other by a predetermined pitch;

second portions extending in axial directions from an inner layer of the other of the two slots; and

third portions located at axial-direction end portions of the coil end groups and extending radically to connect axial-direction end portions of the first portions and the second portions;

passages for the cooling medium are formed between the third portions of the stationary blade coil ends;

the third portions have a plate shape and extend from ends of the second portions toward ends of the first portions, and extend in a radial direction and a circumferential direction of said core and incline in the direction of rotation of the moving blades from an inner side toward an outer side; and

the third portions form stationary blades cooperating with the moving blades of the rotor, which rotates together with the rotor, in axial-direction end surfaces of the coil end groups.

16. An alternator according to claim 15, wherein the coil ends located at the passages are formed by plate-shaped conductors which extend along directions of air flows caused by the moving blades.

17. An alternator according to claim 16, wherein the stationary blade coil ends have bridge portions composed of the first and second portions, and projecting portions composed of the third portions, the bridge portions connecting accommodated portions of the polyphase armature coil in the slots which are spaced by the predetermined pitch, the projecting portions projecting from the bridge portions and forming the stationary blades.

18. An alternator according to claim 17, wherein the polyphase armature coil is formed by connecting a plurality of connected segments, the projecting portions being connection portions of the segments.

19. An alternator according to claim 16, wherein the second portions are near the moving blades, and the second portions also form stationary blades.

20. An alternator according to claim 19, wherein the second portions extend from an end surface of the stator core in said axial directions while inclining in said circumferential direction.

21. An alternator according to claim 20, wherein the first portions are more distant from the moving blades than the second portions are, and the first portions intersect the second portions.

22. An alternator according to claim 21, wherein the stationary blade coil ends have bridge portions composed of the first and second portions, and projecting portions composed of the third portions, the bridge portions being formed by inner layer portions and outer layer portions, the projecting portions projecting from the bridge portions and forming the stationary blades.

23. An alternator according to claim 22, wherein the polyphase armature coil is formed by a plurality of connected segments, the projecting portions being connection portions of the segments.

24. An alternator according to claim 16, wherein the coil ends are formed by plate-shaped conductors, and form stationary blades which cooperate with the moving blades.

25. An alternator according to claim 15, wherein passages for direct communication from an inner side to an outer side along said circumferential direction are formed between the third portions.

26. An alternator according to claim 25, wherein the first portions of the stationary blade coil ends are located at an outermost surface of the coil end groups, and the second portions of the stationary blade coil ends are located at an innermost surface of the coil end groups, and the third portions of the stationary blade coil ends are located at a most-distal axial-direction end surface of the coil end groups.