Motor pump unit

• US 9,046,087 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2011
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• 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:
  US13/136,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20120034111A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,398 Days
• Field of Search: 417/371, 417/366, 417/357, 417/367, 417/368, 310/54
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 2203/0223 Electric motor pumps
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 2203/027 Pump details
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 2203/0294 Wobbling swash plates for high pressure cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 3/026 Cleaning by making use of hand-held spray guns; Fluid preparations therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 17/03 driven by electric motors
• 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: F04C 29/045 of the electric motor in hermetic pumps
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/10 with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. water or fingers
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/15 Mounting arrangements for bearing-shields or end plates
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/1732 radially supporting the rotary shaft at both ends of the rotor H02K5/1737 takes precedence
• 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 suction inlet connected to the annular space outlet and a pressure outlet. The liquid to be transported by the pump can be supplied to the annular space inlet. In order to improve the motor pump unit such that the motor housing can have a small wall thickness and can still be cooled effectively over a large surface area, the motor housing is configured as a one-piece deep-drawn part which in a front shell area contacts stator laminations of the electric motor and in a rear shell area is arranged at a distance from rear coil heads of the stator and in the rear shell area has stiffness-enhancing depressions, wherein the front and the rear shell areas are surrounded by the annular space.

Claims

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

a liquid-cooled electric motor and a pump, wherein;

the electric motor has a cup-shaped 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 suction inlet connected to the annular space outlet for drawing in liquid and a pressure outlet for discharging the liquid,

the liquid to be transported by the pump is suppliable to the annular space inlet,

the motor housing is monolithically formed as a one-piece deep-drawn part comprising a cylindrical shell and a bottom, the cylindrical shell comprising a front shell area which contacts stator laminations of the electric motor and a rear shell area which is arranged at a distance from rear coil heads of the stator, the rear shell area having stiffness-enhancing depressions,

the front and the rear shell areas are surrounded by the annular space,

the motor housing has a collar arranged on a side of the depressions that faces away from the pump, said collar being aligned concentrically with a motor shaft and forming a sealing face for a sealing ring.

2. Motor pump unit in accordance with claim 1, wherein the stiffness-enhancing depressions are configured in a form of beads aligned in a longitudinal direction of the electric motor.

3. Motor pump unit in accordance with claim 1, wherein the cooling housing is configured as a plastic part of cylindrical shell configuration which is adapted to be slid onto the motor housing in an axial direction and which in a front area facing towards the pump and in a rear area facing away from the pump has sealing faces aligned concentrically with a motor shaft, the front and rear sealing faces being contacted respectively by front and rear sealing rings clamped in a radial direction for sealing the annular space.

4. Motor pump unit in accordance with claim 3, wherein the cooling housing, in an end area facing away from the pump, has an annular projection defining a cylindrical shell shaped sealing face for contacting the rear sealing ring.

5. Motor pump unit in accordance with claim 4, wherein the sealing face of the annular projection in a radial direction is arranged at a same height as a bottom of the depressions.

6. Motor pump unit in accordance with claim 3, wherein a connecting nipple aligned parallel to the motor shaft is arranged at the annular space inlet and/or at the annular space outlet, said connecting nipple being connectable in a liquid-tight manner to a cooling passage of a drive housing of the pump.