Motor pump unit

• US 8,920,138 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2011
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alfred Kã¤Rcher GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Alfred Kã¤Rcher GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Schiffhauer, Walter, Pol, Lanfranco
• Primary Examiner(s): COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT
• Application Number:
  US13/197,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20120195772A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,244 Days
• Field of Search: 417/366, 417/371, 417/368
• US Class Current: 417/371
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 1/12 having cylinder axes coaxial with, or parallel or inclined to, main shaft axis
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 1/145 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 17/03 driven by electric motors
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 35/04 the means being electric
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 39/06 Cooling; Heating; Prevention of freezing
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 39/064 Cooling by a cooling jacket in the pump casing
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 53/08 Cooling; Heating; Preventing freezing
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/203 specially adapted for liquids, e.g. cooling jackets
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/14 Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans with fan or impeller for cooling the machine H02K9/06

Abstract

A motor pump unit for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus has an electric motor and a pump. The electric motor has a motor housing that is surrounded by a cooling housing with an annular space having an annular space inlet and an annular space outlet formed therebetween. The pump has a drive housing on which is supported the motor shaft, and has a suction inlet and a pressure outlet. The annular space outlet is fluidly connected to the suction inlet and liquid to be pressurized by the pump is suppliable to the annular space inlet. In order to improve the motor pump unit such that the heat load on the drive housing can be reduced, the drive housing has at least one cooling passage which is arranged upstream of the suction inlet and through which the liquid to be pressurized can flow.

Claims

1. A motor pump unit for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus, comprising:

an electric motor and a pump, the electric motor comprising a motor housing that is surrounded by a cooling housing with an annular space having an annular space inlet and an annular space outlet, the annular space being formed between the motor housing and the cooling housing, the pump comprising a drive housing on which is supported a motor shaft of the electric motor, a suction inlet for drawing in liquid, and a pressure outlet for discharging pressurized liquid, the annular space outlet being fluidly connected to the suction inlet, liquid to be pressurized by the pump being suppliable to the annular space inlet, the drive housing having at least one cooling passage which is arranged upstream of the suction inlet and which is adapted to have the liquid to be pressurized flow therethrough; and

the drive housing comprising a base body having a motor-side wall section which contacts the motor housing, and a pump-side wall section which contacts a housing of the pump, the at least one cooling passage being disposed laterally alongside the motor-side wall section, external to the motor-side wall section;

wherein;

the base body is connected in one piece to the at least one cooling passage via at least one heat-conductive rib projecting outward from the base body; and

the at least one heat-conductive rib is located between the base body and the at least one cooling passage.

2. The motor pump unit in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

the drive housing has a first cooling passage and a second cooling passage, the first cooling passage is connected to the annular space inlet and the second cooling passage is connected to the annular space outlet.

3. The motor pump unit in accordance with claim 1, wherein the drive housing, including the at least one cooling passage, is made of metal.

4. The motor pump unit in accordance with claim 1, wherein the at least one heat-conductive rib comprises two heat-conductive ribs aligned parallel to each other, each heat-conductive rib arranged between one of the at least one cooling passage and the base body.

5. The motor pump unit in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

the drive housing has a bearing sleeve on which the motor shaft is supported for rotation and which is surrounded by a circumferential wall section of the drive housing with an annular interspace formed therebetween, winding heads of the electric motor protrude into the interspace, and the at least one cooling passage is integrally formed on an outside of the circumferential wall section.

6. The motor pump unit in accordance with claim 1, wherein the drive housing surrounds a swash drive held on the motor shaft.

7. The motor pump unit in accordance with claim 1, wherein the cooling housing is configured in the form of a cylindrical shell which is adapted to be slid in an axial direction onto the motor housing and to be detachably connected to the drive housing with a liquid-tight connection established between the at least one cooling passage and the annular space inlet or the annular space outlet.