Tandem rotary electric machine

• US 7,397,156 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2006
• Issued: 07/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Kusase, Shin, Mukai, Takuzou
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TRAN N
• Application Number:
  US11/480,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20070007837A1
• Time in Patent Office: 734 Days
• Field of Search: 310/58, 310/62, 310/71, 310/112, 310/114, 310/181, 310/261, 310/263, 310/113, 310/180, 310/184, 310/185
• US Class Current: 310/112
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 11/05 Rectifiers associated with casings, enclosures or brackets
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 16/00 Machines with more than one rotor or stator machines for transmitting mechanical power from a driving shaft to a driven shaft and comprising structurally interrelated motor and generator parts H02K51/00; permanent magnet machines with multiple rotors or stators relatively rotated for vectorially combining the excitation fields or the armature voltages H02K21/029
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/50 Fastening of winding heads, equalising connectors, or connections thereto
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/225 Terminal boxes or connection arrangements specially adapted for submersible motors H02K5/132

Abstract

A tandem rotary electric machine for vehicles is equipped with a primary rotary electric machine and a secondary rotary electric machine arranged in tandem mechanism, namely, of a dual stator-rotor pair mechanism. In the tandem rotary electric machine, a connection lead wire connects a stator coil wound on a stator core of the primary stator-rotor pair to a rectifier device through one of accommodation parts formed in slots of the stator core of the secondary stator-rotor pair. This structure reduces the entire size or volume of the tandem rotary electric machine and increases the mechanical safety against the impact or force from outside.

Claims

1. A tandem rotary electric machine comprising:

a primary stator-rotor pair and a secondary stator-rotor pair,

each pair comprising;

a rotor core on which field windings are wound and a stator core on which a stator coil is wound;

a rectifier device, configured to rectify voltages generated by both of the stator coils, placed at the outside of the secondary stator-rotor pair in its axial direction and separated from the primary stator-rotor pair; and

a controller configured to independently control field currents of both the primary stator-rotor pair and the secondary stator-rotor pair, wherein

both of the rotor cores are arranged adjacent to each other, fixed to a same rotary shaft, and driven by a vehicular engine,

a stator winding of each phase of the stator coil in the primary stator-rotor pair has (2N₁/3) turns, and a stator winding of each phase of the stator coil in the secondary stator-rotor pair has ((2N_2/3) −

1) turns, where a number of slots in the primary stator-rotor pair is N₁ and a number of slots in the secondary stator-rotor pair is N₂, and

the stator coil of the primary stator-rotor pair is connected to the rectifier device through a connection lead wire penetrated through a specified slot of the stator core in the secondary stator-rotor pair.

2. The tandem rotary electric machine according to claim 1, wherein the stator coil of the secondary stator-rotor pair is composed of sequential segment joining type stator coils which are inserted in each slot of the stator core and sequentially connected through an end part of each sequential segment joining type stator coil, and

the connection lead wire is inserted and penetrated in at least one of idle spaces in the specified slot of the stator core in the secondary stator-rotor pair, which is obtained by a decreased turn number of the stator windings, and no sequential segment joining type stator coils as the stator coil of the secondary stator-rotor pair are accommodated in the idle spaces.

3. The tandem rotary electric machine according to claim 1, wherein the connection lead wire has a slot penetrating lead wire which is inserted in the specified slot of the stator core of the secondary stator-rotor pair, and one end of the connection lead wire is connected to one end of the stator coil of the primary stator-rotor pair.

4. The tandem rotary electric machine according to claim 1, wherein the connection lead wire is inserted and penetrated through the idle space in the specified slot in a same phase of the stator core of the secondary stator-rotor pair.