Central electricity distribution member for rotary electric machine

• US 8,067,866 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2008
• Issued: 11/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumimoto Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumimoto Wiring Systems, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Okamoto, Masaki, Sasaki, Kei
• Primary Examiner(s): Leung; Quyen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mok; Alex W
• Application Number:
  US12/331,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20090152975A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,085 Days
• Field of Search: 310/71, 310/179, 310/180
• US Class Current: 310/71
• 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 3/522 for generally annular cores with salient poles
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/225 Terminal boxes or connection arrangements specially adapted for submersible motors H02K5/132

Abstract

A central electricity distribution member for a rotary electric machine, comprising connecting bus bars of respective phases for connecting, among coils of respective phases wound around a stator of the rotary electric machine, the coils of the same phases; a connecting bus bar for a neutral point for connecting the coils of the same phases wound around the stator of the rotary electric machine; a circular holding groove capable of receiving the respective connecting bus bars as the respective connection bus bars are insulated from one another; a bus bar insulating portion formed using insulating material; a bus bar-side positioning portion provided on each of the connecting bus bars; and an insulation-side positioning portion provided on the bus bar insulating portion, for performing positioning between the respective connecting bus bars and the bus bar insulating portion in cooperation with the bus bar-side positioning portion.

Claims

1. A central electricity distribution member for a rotary electric machine, comprising:

connecting bus bars of respective phases for connecting, among coils of respective phases wound around a stator of the rotary electric machine, the coils of the same phases;

a bus bar for a neutral point for connecting the coils of the same phases wound around the stator of the rotary electric machine;

a bus bar insulating portion having a circular holding groove for accepting a respective bus bar and insulating the respective bus bars from one another;

an insulation-side positioning portion provided on the bus bar insulating portion; and

a bus bar-side positioning portion provided on each of the bus bars, for performing positioning between the bus bar insulating portion and the respective bus bars in cooperation with the insulation-side positioning portion,

wherein the insulation-side positioning portion is one of inside walls opposed to a groove width direction of the holding groove, the one inside wall having at least a lower part thereof, that is proximate a bottom surface of the holding groove, inclined such that the groove width of the holding groove becomes smaller from an opening side to the bottom surface of the holding groove, and the bus bar-side positioning portion is a curved portion for abutting on the inclined wall, and

wherein the bus bar-side positioning portion is slidably engageable with a face of the lower part of the inclined inside wall so that the bus bar-side positioning portion moves in the width direction across the holding groove as it slides toward the bottom surface of the holding groove.

2. The central electricity distribution member for a rotary electric machine according to claim 1, wherein a curved portion once protrudes on a bottom surface of the holding groove along a longitudinal direction of the holding groove and then returns to an original level thereof, and a concave portion for accepting a convex portion of the holding groove, the convex portion being formed on the bottom surface of the holding groove.

3. The central electricity distribution member for a rotary electric machine according to claim 1, further comprising:

a pressing cover portion for pressing the respective bus bars in a depth direction of the holding groove, wherein the bus bar insulating portion has an insulation-side engagement portion formed on at least one of outside walls thereof on a radially inward side and on a radially outward side, and the pressing cover portion has a cover-side engagement portion for causing the pressing cover portion to be engaged with the bus bar insulating portion in cooperation with the insulation-side engagement portion.