Method and apparatus for introducing wave windings into rotor and stator lamination packets of electrical machines

• US 7,281,312 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2003
• Issued: 10/16/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schaeffler Elmotec Statomat GmbH (INA-Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: Elmotec Statomat Vertriebs GmbH (Elmotec Statomat Incorporated)
• Inventors: Sadiku, Sadik, Witwer, Keith A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tugbang; A. Dexter
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cazan; Livius R.
• Application Number:
  US10/635,904
• Publication Number:
  US 20040261256A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,531 Days
• Field of Search: 297/32, 296/05, 295/96, 295/98, 310/42, 310/207, 140/92.1, 140/92.2
• US Class Current: 29/596
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 15/0478 Wave windings, undulated windings when on diagonally wound hollow coils H02K15/0492
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 15/066 inserted perpendicularly to the axis of the slots or inter-polar channels
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49009 Dynamoelectric machine
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49012 Rotor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53143 Motor or generator

Abstract

A method and apparatus in which wave windings, cut from a continuously formed wave winding band, are brought with a defined number of waves essentially tangentially to a rotor or stator lamination packet or a rotorlike transfer tool having radially outwardly open slots. During a rotary motion of the lamination packet or transfer tool and a substantially tangential relative motion, at a speed corresponding to the circumferential speed of the rotary motion, the straight portions of the bandlike wave windings are pressed into the slots.

Claims

1. A method for forming and transferring wave winding segments of wire for an electrical machine comprising the steps of:

forming the wave winding segments, said forming step including the steps of

providing each wave winding segment a) with a series of straight portions extending transversely in a common plane, and b) with a series of gable-shaped winding heads which connect adjacent ends of adjacent straight portions, each winding head including first and second legs in the common plane, and

deforming the winding heads so as to displace at least a portion of one of said first and second legs of each winding head out of the common plane while keeping the straight portions in the common plane;

placing the straight portions of the formed wave winding segments in a sequential order into transverse receiving slots of a longitudinal receiver so that adjacent straight portions of at least a section of each wave winding segment are arranged in a same plane in the transverse slots of the longitudinal receiver; and

transferring the wave winding segments from the transverse slots of the longitudinal receiver into axial slots in a circumferential surface of a rotatable cylindrical member, which rotatable cylindrical member is one of a transfer tool, rotor, or stator lamination packet.

2. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 1, wherein the forming step provides the wave winding segments as flat segments.

3. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 1, wherein the forming step provides the wave winding segments made of rectangular untwisted wire.

4. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of forming further includes the steps of

playing out wire from a wire guide,

alternately placing the wire from the wire guide around outer side faces of forming protrusions which are provided offset from one another in first and second circumferential rotating rows,

increasing a spacing of adjacent protrusions of the first row and second row by such an amount that outer side faces of the adjacent forming protrusions form the gable-shaped winding heads,

removing a formed wave winding band from the protrusions, and

cutting the wave winding segments from the wave winding band.

5. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 1, wherein the deforming step further includes deforming at least a portion of the other one of said first and second legs out of the common plane of the series of straight portions in a direction opposite to the deforming of the portion of the one of said first and second legs.

6. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 1, wherein said deforming step further includes the step of stamping the portion of the one of the first and second legs of the wave winding segments.

7. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 6, wherein said stamping step includes the step of forming a round wire cross section of the wave winding segments into a rectangular cross section.

8. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 1, wherein said placing step includes the step of disposing straight portions of one wave winding segment over straight portions of another wave winding segment so that the winding heads of the one and another wave winding segments starting from one end of straight portions placed in the same slot of the receiver are directed in opposite longitudinal directions.

9. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 1, wherein said placing step includes the step of disposing straight portions of one section of a wave winding segment over straight portions of another section of said wave winding segment such that the wave winding segment is arranged in more than one layer.

10. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 9, wherein said disposing step includes the folding over of the wave winding segment.

11. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 10, wherein said disposing step includes the directing of the winding heads, starting from one end of straight portions placed in the same slot, in one layer in a longitudinal direction opposite to that of an underlying layer.

12. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 1, wherein said placing step includes the step of disposing the straight portions of a plurality of wave winding segments one after another in adjacent transverse slots of said longitudinal receiver so that the winding heads form two overlapping layers where one of said first and second legs of a gable-shaped winding head of the first wave winding segment forms a first layer and the other ones of said first and second legs of the gable-shaped winding heads of the other wave winding segments cross over the leg forming said first layer at different locations and together form a second layer.

13. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transferring step includes moving the longitudinal receiver past the circumferential surface of the cylindrical member at a speed corresponding to a circumferential speed of the cylindrical member.

14. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 13, further including

providing the wave winding segments with a certain number of straight portions and the longitudinal receiver with a corresponding number of transverse slots which is a multiple of the number of slots of the cylindrical member and rotating the cylindrical member during the transferring step several times.

15. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transferring step includes providing the cylindrical member in form of only one of a rotor or stator lamination packet.

16. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 1, further including the step of subsequently transferring the wave winding segments from the cylindrical member radially to inwardly opening slots of one of a stator or rotor lamination packet.

17. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 16, further including, after the subsequent transferring step the step of compressing the wave winding segments in the inwardly opening slots.

18. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 17, further including, after the compressing step, repeating the transferring and compressing steps with further wave winding segments.

19. A method for forming and transferring as claimed in claim 18,

wherein the step of forming includes forming a first group of wave winding segments with relatively taller winding heads and a second group of wave winding segments with relatively shorter winding heads, and

wherein the step of subsequently transferring includes disposing the straight portions of the first group of wave winding segments in a radially outer layer and the straight portions of the second group of wave winding segments in a radially inner layer in the slots of the one of the stator or rotor lamination packet.

20. A method for forming and transferring wave winding segments of wire into a stator or rotor comprising the steps of:

forming the wave winding segments, said forming step including the steps of

providing each wave winding segment a) with a series of straight portions extending transversely in a common plane, and b) with a series of gable-shaped winding heads which connect adjacent ends of adjacent straight portions, each winding head including first and second legs in the common plane, and

deforming the winding heads so as to displace at least a portion of one of said first and second legs of each winding head out of the common plane while keeping the straight portions in the common plane;

placing the straight portions of the formed wave winding segments in a sequential order into transverse receiving slots of a longitudinal receiver so that adjacent straight portions of at least a section of each wave winding segment are arranged in a same plane in the transverse slots of the longitudinal receiver;

manufacturing a stator or rotor lamination packet with axial slots in a circumferential surface thereof; and

transferring the wave winding segments from the transverse slots of the longitudinal receiver into the axial slots of the stator or rotor.