Segment connection type electric rotating machine

• US 7,521,828 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2006
• Issued: 04/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Kato, Toshikazu, Ogawa, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): MULLINS, BURTON S
• Application Number:
  US11/334,460
• Publication Number:
  US 20060163959A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,188 Days
• Field of Search: 310/71, 310/179, 310/89
• US Class Current: 310/71
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/38 around winding heads, equalising connectors, or connections thereto
• 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

The segment connection type electric rotating machine includes a stator coil constituted by phase coils each of which includes a U-shaped segment continuum formed by U-shaped conductor segments inserted into slots of a stator core, an I-shaped leading conductor segment inserted into one of the slots and connected to a lead end of the U-shaped segment continuum, and an I-shaped terminating conductor segment inserted into one of the slots and connected to a terminal end of the U-shaped segment continuum. A connector box fixed to the outer periphery of the stator core. A power supply lead is laid between the connector box and the I-shaped leading conductor segment. The power supply lead is welded at a tip portion thereof to an end portion of the I-shaped leading conductor segment in the vicinity of head-side coil ends of the stator coil.

Claims

1. A segment connection type electric rotating machine comprising:

a stator coil comprising;

phase coils each of which includes a U-shaped segment continuum formed by U-shaped conductor segments inserted into slots of a stator core from one of end surfaces of the stator core with respect to an axial direction of the stator core and connected to one another at the other one of the end surfaces,

an I-shaped leading conductor segment inserted into one of the slots and connected to a lead end of the U-shaped segment continuum at the other one of the end surfaces, and

an I-shaped terminating conductor segment inserted into one of the slots and connected to a terminal end of the U-shaped segment continuum at the other one of the end surfaces;

a connector box fixed to an outer periphery of the stator core; and

a power supply lead laid between the connector box and the I-shaped leading conductor segment, the power supply lead being welded at a tip portion thereof to an end portion of the I-shaped leading conductor segment in the vicinity of an axial end of the stator coil;

wherein the U-shaped conductor segments are made of rectangular wire, and the power supply lead is made of round wire, and

wherein the end portion of the I-shaped leading conductor segment includes a portion extending in a circumferential direction of the stator core over the axial end of the stator coil, and the tip portion of the power supply lead includes a portion extending in the circumferential direction over the axial end of the stator coil.

2. A segment connection type electric rotating machine comprising:

a stator coil comprising;

phase coils each of which includes a U-shaped segment continuum formed by U-shaped conductor segments inserted into slots of a stator core from one of end surfaces of the stator core with respect to an axial direction of the stator core and connected to one another at the other one of the end surfaces,

an I-shaped leading conductor segment inserted into one of the slots and connected to a lead end of the U-shaped segment continuum at the other one of the end surfaces, and

an I-shaped terminating conductor segment inserted into one of the slots and connected to a terminal end of the U-shaped segment continuum at the other one of the end surfaces;

a connector box fixed to an outer periphery of the stator core; and

a power supply lead laid between the connector box and the I-shaped leading conductor segment, the power supply lead being welded at a tip portion thereof to an end portion of the I-shaped leading conductor segment in the vicinity of an axial end of the stator coil;

wherein the power supply lead of each phase laid between the connector box and the I-shaped leading conductor segment of each phase includes a U-bend part situated on the outer periphery of the stator core.

3. A segment connection type electric rotating machine comprising:

a stator coil comprising;

phase coils each of which includes a U-shaped segment continuum formed by U-shaped conductor segments inserted into slots of a stator core from one of end surfaces of the stator core with respect to an axial direction of the stator core and connected to one another at the other one of the end surfaces,

an I-shaped leading conductor segment inserted into one of the slots and connected to a lead end of the U-shaped segment continuum at the other one of the end surfaces, and

an I-shaped terminating conductor segment inserted into one of the slots and connected to a terminal end of the U-shaped segment continuum at the other one of the end surfaces;

a connector box fixed to an outer periphery of the stator core; and

a power supply lead laid between the connector box and the I-shaped leading conductor segment, the power supply lead being welded at a tip portion thereof to an end portion of the I-shaped leading conductor segment in the vicinity of an axial end of the stator coil;

wherein the U-shaped conductor segments are made of rectangular wire, and the power supply lead is made of round wire, and

wherein the power supply lead is laid over the outer periphery of the stator core so as to extend in the axial direction, bent inward in a radial direction of the stator core at the one of the end surfaces, and bent in a circumferential direction of the stator core to reach the I-shaped leading conductor segment.

4. The segment connection type electric rotating machine according to claim 3, wherein the end portion of the I-shaped leading conductor segment includes a portion extending in the circumferential direction over the axial end of the stator coil, and the tip portion of the power supply lead includes a portion extending in the circumferential direction over the axial end of the stator coil.

5. A segment connection type electric rotating machine comprising:

a stator coil comprising;

phase coils each of which includes a U-shaped segment continuum formed by U-shaped conductor segments inserted into slots of a stator core from one of end surfaces of the stator core with respect to an axial direction of the stator core and connected to one another at the other one of the end surfaces,

an I-shaped leading conductor segment inserted into one of the slots and connected to a lead end of the U-shaped segment continuum at the other one of the end surfaces, and

an I-shaped terminating conductor segment inserted into one of the slots and connected to a terminal end of the U-shaped segment continuum at the other one of the end surfaces;

a connector box fixed to an outer periphery of the stator core; and

a power supply lead laid between the connector box and the I-shaped leading conductor segment, the power supply lead being welded at a tip portion thereof to an end portion of the I-shaped leading conductor segment in the vicinity of an axial end of the stator coil;

wherein the end portion of the I-shaped leading conductor segment includes a portion extending in a circumferential direction of the stator core over the axial end of the stator coil, and the tip portion of the power supply lead includes a portion extending in the circumferential direction over the axial end of the stator coil.

6. The segment connection type electric rotating machine according to claim 5, wherein the end portion of the I-shaped leading conductor segment includes a bent portion formed by bending the end portion at substantially a right angle, and the tip portion of the power supply lead includes a bent portion formed by bending the tip portion at substantially a right angle.

7. The segment connection type electric rotating machine according to claim 6, wherein the bent portions of the I-shaped leading conductor segment and the power supply lead are extended outward in the axial direction.

8. The segment connection type electric rotating machine according to claim 5, wherein each of the slots has 4n+2 (n being a positive integer) segment conductor holding spaces aligned in the radial direction , the I-shaped terminating conductor segment being held in one of the segment conductor holding spaces other than outermost one and innermost one of the segment conductor holding spaces, an end portion of the I-shaped terminating conductor segment being extended in the circumferential direction to be welded to other the end portion of other the I-shaped terminating conductor segment of other the phase coil to thereby form a neutral point.

9. The segment connection type electric rotating machine according to claim 8, wherein the I-shaped terminating conductor segment whose end portion is extended in the circumferential direction to form the neutral point is held by a second innermost one of the segment conductor holding spaces.

10. The segment connection type electric rotating machine according to claim 9, wherein the U-bend part of the power supply lead of each phase is formed by bending the power supply lead such that the power supply lead extending in the axial direction from the connector box projects in the circumferential direction and then bends in an opposite circumferential direction.