Mounting device for rotating electric machines

• US 6,429,563 B1
• Filed: 10/25/1999
• Issued: 08/06/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AB (ABB Limited)
• Original Assignee: ABB AB (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Jonas, Ivan, Engvall, Kent, Lundquist, Kenneth, Leijon, Mats, Rothman, Bengt
• Primary Examiner(s): ENAD, ELVIN GENARGUE
• Application Number:
  US09/355,822
• Time in Patent Office: 1,016 Days
• Field of Search: 310/179, 310/180, 310/254-258, 310/259, 174/13-33
• US Class Current: 310/149
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/185 to outer stators
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2203/15 Machines characterised by cable windings, e.g. high-voltage cables, ribbon cables

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mounting device (80) for reducing short-circuiting forces that are transmitted from a stator core to a stator body in a rotating electric machine comprising a stator with windings drawn through slots in the stator, wherein the stator core is composed of a number of packs (82), each of which includes a number of metal sheets, or of a number of metal sheets, each pack (82) or metal sheet having two identical grooves (84) arranged for cooperation with wedge members (86) designed to join together packs (82) or metal sheets, and wherein the stator body comprises beams (88), each connected to a wedge member (86). The mounting device (80) also comprises a connector (90) arranged through the beam (88) and secured in the wedge member (86) in order to connect the beam (88) and wedge member (86) in such a manner as to permit sliding between the wedge member (86) and the beam (88) in the event of short-circuiting. The windings also consist of high-voltage cable (10).

Claims

1. A mounting device for reducing short-circuiting forces transmitted from a stator core to a stator body in a rotating electric machine wherein the stator core is formed of a number of packs, each of which includes at least one metal sheet each having two identical grooves, a wedge member for cooperation with the grooves to join together said metal sheets, and wherein the stator body comprises a plurality of beams each having at least one through hole, each connected to a wedge member, wherein windings are drawn through slots in the stator, the windings comprising a high-voltage cable and the mounting device comprises a connector arranged through each through-hole in each beam and secured in the wedge member in order to connect each beam and wedge member, wherein the cross-sectional area of the hole at right angles to its longitudinal axis being greater than the cross-sectional area of the connector at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the connector, permitting sliding between the wedge member and the beam in the event of short-circuiting.

2. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the high-voltage cable comprises an electric conductor having at least one conductive strand, a first semiconducting layer surrounding the electric conductor, an insulating layer surrounding the first semiconducting layer, and a second semiconducting layer surrounding the insulating layer.

3. A mounting device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the high-voltage cable has a diameter of about 20 mm to about 200 mm and a conducting area of about 80 mm² to about 3000 mm².

4. A mounting device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the winding is flexible and said layers adhere to each other.

5. A mounting device as claimed in claim 4, wherein said layers of said high-voltage cable comprise materials having an elasticity and a coefficient of thermal expansion such that a change in volume in the layers caused by temperature fluctuations during operation is absorbed by the elasticity of the materials so that the layers retain their adhesion to each other at the temperature fluctuations occurring during operation.

6. A mounting device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the materials in said layers have an E-modulus less than about 500 MPa.

7. A mounting device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the coefficients of thermal expansion for the materials in said layers are of substantially the same magnitude.

8. A mounting device as claimed in claim 5, wherein an adhesion between the layers is of at least a same magnitude as a strength of a weakest of the materials.

9. A mounting device as claimed in claim 5, wherein each of the semiconducting layers comprises an equipotential surface.

10. A mounting device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the materials in said layers have an E-modulus less than about 200 MPa.

11. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, comprising a screw joint for securing the connector in the wedge member.

12. A mounting device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the connector comprises a bolt, having a tapped end for engagement with screw threads in the wedge means, and an end of the bolt being formed with a head being for abutment against the beam.

13. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of the mounting devices are repeated a number of times around the periphery of the stator.

14. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cable comprises a conductive core and an electric field confining insulating covering surrounding the core.

15. A rotating electric machine, comprising:

a stator core having stator slots, the stator core formed from a number of packs, each pack including at least two metal sheets having two identical grooves;

a stator body including a plurality of beams, each beam having at least one through-hole and being connected to a wedge member by a mounting device, the wedge members being configured to cooperate with the grooves to join the number of packs together; and

a winding of a high-voltage cable drawn through the stator slots, wherein

the mounting device is configured to reduce short-circuiting forces transmitted from the stator core to the stator body and includes a connector arranged through the through-hole and secured in the wedge member to connect the wedge member to the beam,

a cross-sectional area of the through-hole at a right angle to a longitudinal axis of the through-hole being greater than a crossed-sectional area of the connector at a right angle to a longitudinal axis of the connector such that sliding between the wedge member and the beam is permitted during short-circuiting.