Motor connecting box and converter motor

• US 8,299,662 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2008
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Company KG (BV Beteiligung GmbH & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Company KG (BV Beteiligung GmbH & Company KG)
• Inventors: Schmidt, Josef, Böckle, Jürgen, Tesch, Sven
• Primary Examiner(s): Lam, Thanh
• Application Number:
  US12/670,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20100237722A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,575 Days
• Field of Search: 310/52, 310/71, 310/68.D, 310/89, 310/91
• US Class Current: 310/52
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 11/33 Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics H02K11/38 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/207 with openings in the casing specially adapted for ambient air
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/225 Terminal boxes or connection arrangements specially adapted for submersible motors H02K5/132
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 9/14 wherein gaseous cooling medium circulates between the machine casing and a surrounding mantle

Abstract

In a converter motor, the converter electronics are integrated into the motor connecting box. The lower part of the motor connecting box is formed in one piece with a housing of the converter motor and at the front end than at the rear end. The edge of the upper part of the motor connecting box is shaped appropriately slantwise, so that the upper side is aligned to be straight. Connecting cables for power current and data communications issue from a stepped gradation in the upper part. The upper part has a plurality of openings for passing through cables which are oriented at an angle of less than 90° to one another and to the motor axis.

Claims

1. A motor connecting box, comprising:

a lower part; and

an upper part;

wherein a step is formed in the upper part, the step including two plateau surfaces and an end face connecting the plateau surfaces, openings for cable bushings being arranged in the end face of the step;

wherein the step has a plane of symmetry, and, on both sides of the plane of symmetry, openings are provided for cable bushings.

2. The motor connecting box according to claim 1, wherein the openings for the cable bushings point away from the plane of symmetry.

9. The motor connecting box according to claim 1, further comprising converter electronics provided in an interior of the motor connecting box.

10. The motor connecting box according to claim 9, wherein the converter electronics include a power component, and at a bottom of the lower part, a planar contact surface is provided, the power component being laid onto the contact surface for the heat dissipation.

17. The motor connecting box according to claim 1, wherein an outer tubular part is provided on the lower part and adapted to accommodate a motor unit, a bottom of the lower part forming a part of the outer tubular part.

18. The motor connecting box according to claim 17, wherein an inner tubular part is arranged in the outer tubular part and adapted to accommodate a stator of a motor unit, an axis of the outer tubular part extending parallel to an axis of the inner tubular part.

19. The motor connecting box according to claim 18, wherein the slanting of the upper edge of the lower part has a diminishing height in a direction of the axis of the outer tubular part.

20. The motor connecting box according to claim 17, wherein the lower part and the outer tubular part are produced from one cast body.

21. The motor connecting box according to claim 20, wherein the outer tubular part and the inner tubular part are produced from one cast body.

3. A motor connecting box comprising:

a lower part; and

an upper part;

wherein a step is formed in the upper part, the step including two plateau surfaces and an end face connecting the plateau surfaces, openings for cable bushings being arranged in the end face of the step;

wherein the step has a plane of symmetry, and, on both sides of the plane of symmetry, openings are provided for cable bushings;

wherein the openings for the cable bushings point away from the plane of symmetry;

wherein at least one of (a) a first opening for cable bushings is provided in a first planar area of the end face of the step;

a mathematical extension of the first planar area intersecting at least two lateral surfaces of the lower part, (b) a second opening for cable bushings is provided in a second planar area of the end face of the step, a mathematical extension of the second planar area intersecting at least two lateral surfaces of the lower part and the mathematical extension of the first planar area, (c) an upper edge being arranged on the lower part, which extends slantwise from a higher end to a lower end, the slanting of the upper edge of the lower part and the step in the upper part having a diminishing height in a same direction.

4. The motor connecting box according to claim 3, wherein a third opening for cable bushings is provided in a third planar area of the end face of the step, the third opening having a lesser diameter than the second opening and the first opening.

5. The motor connecting box according to claim 4, wherein the third planar area is situated between the first planar area and the second planar area.

6. The motor connecting box according to claim 3, wherein the first planar area and the second planar area include an angle having apex points in the direction of the diminishing height of the step.

7. The motor connecting box according to claim 6, wherein the included angle has an angular aperture between 60°

and 100°

.

8. The motor connecting box according to claim 6, wherein the included angle has an angular aperture of 80°

.

11. A motor connecting box comprising:

a lower part;

an upper part; and

converter electronics provided in an interior of the motor connecting box;

wherein a step is formed in the upper part, the step including two plateau surfaces and an end face connecting the plateau surfaces, openings for cable bushings being arranged in the end face of the step;

wherein the converter electronics include a power component, and at a bottom of the lower part, a planar contact surface is provided, the power component being laid onto the contact surface for the heat dissipation;

wherein the power component is situated on a printed circuit board, the printed circuit board pressing the power component onto the contact surface.

12. The motor connecting box according to claim 11, further comprising a fastening frame on which the printed circuit board is fastened and which covers the printed circuit board from above, openings being provided in the fastening frame through which plug connector parts of the printed circuit board extend.

13. The motor connecting box according to claim 12, wherein at least one of (a) the fastening frame is screwed to the lower part pressing the printed circuit board against a bottom of the lower part and (b) the fastening frame having a rim, an additional printed circuit board being clipped onto the rim.

14. The motor connecting box according to claim 13, wherein the rim includes springy tabs having lugs, the additional printed circuit board being clipped onto the rim into the tabs having the lugs.

15. The motor connecting box according to claim 13, wherein at least one of (a) the additional printed circuit board is connected to a plug connector of the printed circuit board via a fitting plug connector and (b) at least one of (i) an intermediate circuit capacitor and (ii) a rectifier module is situated on the additional printed circuit board, in a region that is surrounded at least partially by the higher end of the lower part.

16. A motor connecting box, comprising:

a lower part; and

an upper part;

wherein a step is formed in the upper part, the step including two plateau surfaces and an end face connecting the plateau surfaces, openings for cable bushings being arranged in the end face of the step;

wherein the step in the upper part, on the inside of the motor connecting box, forms a region in which an at least one of (a) an intermediate circuit capacitor and (b) a rectifier module of converter electronics is situated.

22. A converter motor, comprising:

an inner tubular part surrounding a stator;

an outer tubular part surrounding the inner tubular part; and

a motor connecting box arranged on an outer side of the outer tubular part, the motor connecting box including;

a lower part; and

an upper part, a step being formed in the upper part, the step including two plateau surfaces and an end face connecting the plateau surfaces, openings for cable bushings being arranged in the end face of the step;

wherein at least one of;

(a) a ventilator is arranged in the outer tubular part and adapted to move air along a inside of the outer tubular part;

(b) a slanting of an upper edge of the lower part has a diminishing height in a direction of an axis of the outer tubular part;

(c) a region of great height is situated on a drive side of the converter motor;

(d) a contactless power supply is provided; and

(e) a motor shaft is situated in a plane of symmetry of the motor connecting box.