Cage rotor and bar comprising a notch

• US 10,033,254 B2
• Filed: 10/17/2013
• Issued: 07/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Innomotics GmbH
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Brandl, Konrad, Pfaller, Maximilian, Piotrowski, Patryk, Trepper, Andre, Deeg, Christian, Fichtner, Siegfried
• Primary Examiner(s): Truong, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US14/439,556
• Publication Number:
  US 20150303781A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,741 Days
• Field of Search: 310211, 310212
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 15/0012 Manufacturing cage rotors
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 17/165 characterised by the squirrel-cage or other short-circuited windings

Abstract

A cage rotor for an electrical machine includes a rotor laminated core having a groove, and a short-circuiting ring having a first material and cast onto an axial end of the rotor laminated core. Arranged in the groove is a bar which has a bar end. The bar end penetrates into the first material of the short-circuiting ring and has a plurality of notches to provide the bar end with a greater flexibility.

Claims

1. A cage rotor for an electrical machine, comprising:

a rotor laminated core having a groove;

a short-circuiting ring having a first material and cast onto an axial end of the rotor laminated core; and

a bar constructed from conductor elements having a circular or rectangular cross-section and having a diameter up to 1 millimeter, said bar being arranged in the groove and having a bar end, said bar end penetrating into the first material and having a plurality of notches, said plurality of notches having a penetration depth of at least 60 percent of a height of the bar, wherein the bar has a connection facility on each of the notches in the form of a bracket surrounding the bar or a material configured to at least partly fill up the plurality of notches, to hold the bar when inserted during manufacturing of the cage rotor or the electrical machine, wherein the bar has an outer surface provided with at least one notch, said at least one notch extending in a shape of a wedge from the outer surface into the bar to a notch depth.

2. The cage rotor of claim 1, wherein the bar end as a result of the presence of the notches has a flexibility which is greater than a flexibility of a bar section arranged within the groove.

3. The cage rotor of claim 1, wherein the bar has an end face surface provided with at least one notch.

4. The cage rotor of claim 3, wherein the bar defines an axis, said at least one notch extending on the end face surface in a first bar direction in perpendicular relation to the axis, said bar defined by a bar width measured in the first bar direction.

5. The cage rotor claim 3, wherein the bar defines an axis, said at least one notch extending on the end face surface in a second bar direction in parallel relation to the axis, said bar defined by a bar height measured in the second bar direction.

6. The cage rotor of claim 1, wherein the notches are sized to extend from the bar end to another bar end of the bar.

7. The cage rotor of claim 1, wherein the notches are sized to end within the bar.

8. The cage rotor of claim 1, wherein the bar defines an axis, said notches extending in a direction radial to the axis.

9. The cage rotor of claim 1, wherein the bar defines an axis, said notches extending in a direction of the axis.

10. The cage rotor of claim 1, wherein the outer surface has a further notch on a side of the outer surface lying opposite the at least one notch, the notches arranged in offset relationship.

11. An electrical machine, comprising a cage rotor including a rotor laminated core having a groove, a short-circuiting ring having a first material and cast onto an axial end of the rotor laminated core, and a bar constructed from conductor elements having a circular or rectangular cross-section and having a diameter up to 1 millimeter, said bar being arranged in the groove and having a bar end, said bar end penetrating into the first material and having a plurality of notches, said plurality of notches having a penetration depth of at least 60 percent of a height of the bar, wherein the bar has a connection facility on each of the notches in the form of a bracket surrounding the bar or a material configured to at least partly fill up the plurality of notches, to hold the bar when inserted during manufacturing of the cage rotor or the electrical machine, wherein the bar has an outer surface provided with at least one notch, said at least one notch extending in a shape of a wedge from the outer surface into the bar to a notch depth.

12. A method for manufacturing a cage rotor, comprising:

casting a short-circuiting ring onto an axial end of a rotor laminated core having a groove;

arranging a bar constructed from conductor elements having a circular or rectangular cross-section and having a diameter up to 1 millimeter, said bar being arranged in the groove and having a bar end in the groove such that a bar end penetrates a material of the short-circuiting ring; and

forming a plurality of notches in the bar end to provide the bar end with a flexibility which is greater than a flexibility of a bar section adjacent to the bar end so that the bar end is able to undergo an elastic or plastic deformation, when the bar end is exposed to forces encountered during shrinkage of the material of the short-circuiting ring, as the short-circuiting ring is cast onto the axial end of the rotor laminated core and the material solidifies, said plurality of notches having a penetration depth of at least 60 percent of a height of the bar, wherein the bar has a connection facility on each of the notches in the form of a bracket surrounding the bar or a material configured to at least partly fill up the plurality of notches, to hold the bar when inserted during manufacturing of the cage rotor or an electrical machine, wherein the bar has an outer surface provided with at least one notch, said at least one notch extending in a shape of a wedge from the outer surface into the bar to a notch depth.