JP2013027244A - End plate of rotor and rotary electric machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cool a rotary electric machine more efficiently.SOLUTION: A rotary electric machine includes a stator 12 and a rotor 14. An end plate 20 disposed on an axial end part of the rotor 14 includes radial walls, each of which radially extends in the radial direction of the rotor 14 at an outer peripheral part, the multiple radial walls disposed in the circumferential direction; and a circumferential wall 42 disposed in the circumferential direction so as to connect the adjacent radial walls. Grooves 44, each of which is defined by the radial wall and the circumferential wall 42 and has a recessed shape, are formed at the outer peripheral part of the end plate 20. It is preferable that the axial end surface of the end plate 20 inclines so that at least the end part side of the circumferential wall 42 is raised.

Description

  The present invention relates to a rotor end plate and a rotating electrical machine.

  A vehicle such as a hybrid vehicle or an electric vehicle generally includes a rotating electric machine that can function as a motor and / or a generator. A rotating electrical machine 200 illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 5 is disposed in a hollow portion of the stator 112 and is formed so as to form a hollow portion inside, and rotates facing the stator 112 around the shaft 116 as an axis. Possible rotor 114. End plates 118 and 120 that rotate together with the rotor 114 as the shaft 116 rotates are arranged and fixed at the end of the rotor 114. When the rotary electric machine 200 is operated, the rotor 114 including the end plates 118 and 120 rotates with the shaft 116 serving as the axis of the rotation shaft, and generates heat.

  In order to suppress overheating of the stator and the rotor associated with the operation of the rotating electrical machine, for example, a cooling technique for the rotating electrical machine that ejects / discharges a cooling medium toward a cooling target such as a coil end is disclosed (for example, Patent Documents 1 to 3). 7).

  Patent Documents 1 and 2 disclose that a plurality of through holes are provided in the circumferential direction with respect to the shaft of the end plate, and the cooling medium is ejected toward the cooling target from different through holes according to the rotational speed of the rotor. Has been.

  Patent Document 3 discloses a motor cooling structure in which a groove as a coolant guide is formed on a side surface of an end plate that faces the axial direction of a rotor core.

  Patent Document 4 discloses a coil end cooling device for a rotating electrical machine, in which a gap between an end plate and an end surface of a rotor core and an outer peripheral surface of a flange portion are provided with refrigerant holes inclined obliquely with respect to the rotor rotation axis direction. Is disclosed.

  Patent Document 5 discloses a rotating electrical machine having a guide portion whose tip is disposed at the axial center position of a coil end.

  Patent Document 6 discloses that the coolant jetted between the stator core end surface and the coil end from the coolant groove of the stator core is received by the guide portion of the coolant guide member, and the center of the portion of the coil end facing the stator core end surface. The coil end cooling device led to the section is disclosed.

  In Patent Document 7, an oil hole is formed on one end side in the rotor, and a magnet cooling oil flow passage through which cooling oil for cooling the magnet supplied from the shaft flows, and above the stator, A motor provided with a stator cooling oil flow passage through which cooling oil for cooling the stator flows is disclosed.

JP 2009-273285 A JP 2010-273504 A JP 2003-009467 A JP 2009-296772 A JP 2009-284603 A JP 2009-284718 A JP 2008-178243 A

  Incidentally, the rotating electrical machine 200 shown in FIG. 4 includes a plurality of cooling mechanisms using a cooling medium. The first cooling mechanism circulates the cooling medium inside the rotor 114, for example, the shaft 116, and then uses the cooling medium discharged from the end plates 118 and 120 as the centrifugal force accompanying the rotation of the end plates 118 and 120. Is a cooling mechanism that scatters in the coil end 122b and / or the vicinity thereof. In FIG. 5, the route A is illustrated.

  On the other hand, the second cooling mechanism distributes the cooling medium above the stator 112 into the refrigerant circulation pipe 124 arranged in the direction parallel to the rotation axis of the rotor 114, that is, the shaft 116, and It has the structure discharged from the discharge holes 124a and 124b provided in the vicinity of the coil ends 122a and 122b. In FIG. 5, the route B is illustrated.

  As illustrated in FIG. 5, the cooling medium discharged from the end plate 120 shown as the path A is scattered by the rotation of the end plate 120, particularly toward the lower part or the inner peripheral part of the coil or the coil end 122 b, This contributes to cooling of the stator 112. However, depending on the rotation of the end plate 120, the scattered cooling medium may not be sufficiently utilized for cooling the stator 112.

  On the other hand, when the cooling medium flowing above the stator 112 shown as the path B is discharged from the vicinity of the coil end 122b protruding outward from the end face of the stator core, the upper part or the outer part of the coil or the coil end 122b is wetted. While dissipating heat, it descends to the bottom of the rotating electrical machine. However, due to the structure, it is difficult to distribute the cooling medium to the inner part of the coil end 122b, and it is particularly difficult to distribute the cooling medium to the lower part of the coil end 122b.

  Further, depending on the end face shape of the end plate 120, the cooling medium may travel through the end plate 120 and enter the air gap between the stator 112 and the rotor 114, thereby causing problems such as reducing the rotational efficiency of the rotor 114.

  An object of this invention is to cool a rotary electric machine more efficiently.

  The configuration of the present invention is as follows.

  (1) In a rotating electrical machine comprising: a stator disposed so as to form a hollow portion in an inner portion; and a rotor disposed in the hollow portion and capable of rotating while facing the stator, an axial direction of the rotor The end plate is disposed at the end of the rotor, and is provided on the outer peripheral portion with radial walls extending radially in the radial direction of the rotor, and a plurality of radial walls arranged in the circumferential direction and the diameter adjacent to the radial wall. An end plate comprising: a circumferential wall disposed in a circumferential direction so as to connect the directional walls.

  (2) In the end plate according to (1) above, the outer peripheral portion is formed with a concave groove defined by the radial wall and the circumferential wall, and the axial end surface is at least An end plate that is inclined so that the circumferential wall side is raised.

  (3) A stator disposed so as to form a hollow portion in the inner portion, a rotor disposed in the hollow portion and rotatable to face the stator, and projecting from both end portions in the axial direction of the rotor A rotating electric machine comprising a coil end provided at an end portion of the stator and an end plate disposed at an end portion in the axial direction of the rotor, and an outer peripheral portion of the end plate, A radial wall extending radially in the radial direction, and a plurality of radial walls arranged in the circumferential direction, and a circumferential wall arranged in the circumferential direction so as to connect the adjacent radial walls. , Rotating electrical machinery.

  (4) In the rotating electrical machine according to (3), a concave groove defined by the radial wall and the circumferential wall is formed in an outer peripheral portion of the end plate, and the end plate The axial direction end face of the rotating electric machine is inclined so that at least the end side of the circumferential wall is raised.

  (5) In the rotating electrical machine described in (4) above, the rotating electric machine further includes a refrigerant flow path for flowing a cooling medium in a direction parallel to the rotation axis of the rotor, and the end plate flows out of the refrigerant flow path. The rotating electrical machine is formed such that the cooling medium temporarily stored in the concave groove is scattered toward the object to be cooled by the rotation of the end plate.

  (6) In the rotating electrical machine according to (3) or (4), the end plate has a discharge hole for discharging a cooling medium flowing through the rotor to the end surface in the axial direction. A rotating electrical machine configured to scatter the cooling medium discharged from a hole toward the object to be cooled by rotation of the end plate.

  It becomes possible to improve the cooling efficiency during operation of the rotating electrical machine.

It is a figure for demonstrating the outline of a structure of the rotary electric machine in embodiment of this invention. It is the schematic diagram which expanded partially the rotary electric machine shown in FIG. It is AA sectional drawing of the end plate 20 shown in FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of a rotary electric machine. It is the schematic diagram which expanded the rotary electric machine shown in FIG. 4 partially.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the drawings, the same components are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted in some cases. Further, the dimensional ratio of each member in the drawings and between the drawings does not necessarily match the actual dimensional ratio.

  FIG. 1 shows an example of a rotating electrical machine 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a partially enlarged schematic view for explaining an outline of the configuration of the end plate 20 and the vicinity thereof in the rotating electrical machine 100 shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA for explaining the outline of the configuration of the end plate 20 shown in FIG. The configuration of the end plate 18 and the vicinity thereof shown in FIG. 1 can be substantially the same as the configuration of the end plate 20 and the vicinity thereof, and the description thereof is omitted.

  A rotating electrical machine 100 illustrated in FIG. 1 includes a stator 12 as a stator, which is disposed so as to form a hollow portion in an inner portion thereof, and is disposed in an inner portion of the stator 12. And a rotor 14 as a rotor that is rotatable so as to face a predetermined gap, that is, a so-called air gap. Hereinafter, the longitudinal direction of the shaft 16 is referred to as “axial direction”, the direction perpendicular to the axial direction is referred to as “radial direction”, and the direction in which the rotor 14 can rotate about the shaft 16 (the opposite direction to the rotational direction of the rotor 14). May be referred to as “circumferential direction”. Of the “radial direction”, a direction extending radially away from the center may be particularly referred to as a “radial direction”.

  In FIG. 1, the stator 12 includes a stator core 13 and a coil 22 (also referred to as “stator coil”) wound or attached to the stator core 13. Further, coil ends 22 a and 22 b are formed so as to protrude from both ends of the stator 12. On the other hand, the rotor 14 includes a rotor core (not shown) and end plates 18 and 20 that are arranged and fixed at the end of the rotor 14 and rotate with the rotor 14 as the shaft 16 rotates.

  When the rotating electrical machine 100 functions as a motor, DC power from a power source such as a secondary battery or a fuel cell is boosted to a desired voltage using a boost converter as necessary, and converted to multiphase AC power by an inverter. After that, the coil 22 is energized to rotate the rotor 14. On the other hand, when the rotating electrical machine 100 functions as a generator, a current flows through the coil 22 due to the rotation of the rotor 14, and the electric power obtained at this time is charged as regenerative power in a secondary battery or the like, or an electronic device such as an auxiliary machine To be consumed as drive power.

  For example, the coil 22 can be formed by a plurality of windings constituting a plurality of phase coils (not shown) (for example, a three-phase coil including a U-phase coil, a V-phase coil, and a W-phase coil). Depending on the performance and production cost of the stator 12 and / or the rotating electrical machine 100, various winding structures such as so-called distributed winding and concentrated winding can be used. Further, as the coil 22, for example, coil wires having various cross-sectional shapes such as a round wire, a square wire, and a flat wire can be applied.

  The cooling device 30 guides the cooling medium introduced into the shaft 16 (or the rotor 14) to the end plate 20 via the guide path 38, passes through the end plate end surface 21 from the discharge hole 40, and is to be cooled 50. A first cooling mechanism (see path A shown in FIG. 2), a refrigerant delivery pump 26, a refrigerant supply flow path 28, and a refrigerant distribution pipe 24 that are scattered toward the lower part and the inner peripheral part of the refrigerant. And a second cooling mechanism (see path B shown in FIG. 2) that discharges from the discharge holes 24a and 24b toward the upper portion and the outer peripheral portion of the cooling target 50 in particular.

  The cooling device 30 uses, for example, an electric or mechanical refrigerant delivery pump 26, gear oil in a gear chamber (not shown) adjacent to or close to the case 36 in which the rotary electric machine 100 is housed, or an automatic transmission (not shown). It is possible to have a configuration in which at least a part of the lubricant such as the AT fluid is circulated through the refrigerant flow line 24 as a cooling medium. The refrigerant flow line 24 is arranged in parallel with the rotation axis of the rotor 14. The cooling medium flowing through the refrigerant flow conduit 24 is configured to be discharged from the discharge holes 24a and 24b toward the coil ends 22a and 22b that are the cooling targets, respectively. As another embodiment, the refrigerant flow pipe 24 is further provided with another discharge hole that can discharge the cooling medium toward the coil 22 and / or the rotor 14, and the cooling target cooled by the cooling medium is the coil 22 or A configuration including the rotor 14 may also be adopted. In order to hold the refrigerant flow conduit 24 more stably, it may be fixed to the case 36 using an immobilizing member such as a bracket (not shown).

  A case in which the rotating electrical machine 100 is accommodated is a cooling medium that is discharged from the discharge holes 24 a and 24 b provided in the refrigerant flow conduit 24 and the discharge holes provided in the end plates 18 and 20 and accumulated in the case 36. It is possible to provide a refrigerant discharge flow path 29 for discharging outside 36 and return it to the refrigerant delivery pump 26. In addition, a part of the cooling medium delivered from the refrigerant delivery pump 26 can be introduced into the shaft 16 as the second cooling mechanism, and another refrigerant delivery pump used in the second cooling mechanism. Can also be provided. It is also possible to provide a branch path (not shown) for returning the cooling medium sent from the refrigerant delivery pump 26 to a gear chamber (not shown) or an automatic transmission and circulating it in some cases.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a circumferential wall 42 and a radial wall 48 are provided on the outer peripheral portion of the end plate 20. A plurality of radial walls 48 are arranged in the circumferential direction of the rotor 14, and each radial wall 48 has a shape extending radially in the radial direction of the rotor 14. On the other hand, the circumferential wall 42 is disposed in the circumferential direction so as to connect the adjacent radial walls 48, and the outer peripheral portion of the end plate 20 is a recess defined by the radial wall 48 and the circumferential wall 42. A shaped groove 44 is formed. The shape and / or number of the radial walls 48 arranged on the end plate 20 may be different from that illustrated in FIG.

  In the embodiment, the end surface 20 in the axial direction (end plate end surface) 21 of the end plate 20 is inclined so that at least the scattering guide end 46 side, which is the end of the circumferential wall 42, rises. Accordingly, the cooling target 50 can be appropriately scattered. The end plate end surface 21 may be an inclined surface having a certain inclination, and the cross section may be an arc shape or a curved shape as illustrated in FIG.

  On the other hand, in the concave groove 44 formed in the peripheral edge portion of the end plate 20, a part of the cooling medium flowing out through the path B shown in FIG. The cooling medium stored in the groove 44 hits the radial wall 48 according to the rotation of the end plate 20 and scatters toward the cooling target 50, particularly toward the side portion of the coil end 122 b. For this reason, compared with the rotary electric machine provided with the end plate in which the circumferential wall and the radial wall are not provided in the outer peripheral portion, the cooling efficiency during operation of the rotary electric machine is improved.

  In addition, by providing the groove 44 at the peripheral edge of the end plate 20, it is possible to prevent or suppress the cooling medium from entering the air gap between the stator 12 and the rotor 14 along the wall surface of the end plate 20. In particular, it is preferable to incline the inner wall 43 of the circumferential wall 42 constituting the groove 44 toward the end in the axial direction, since the penetration of the cooling medium into the air gap is more effectively suppressed. .

  In the embodiment of the present invention, the end plates 18 and 20 can be manufactured using the same material as that of the conventional end plate, such as aluminum and aluminum alloy. Moreover, all parts, such as the circumferential direction wall and radial direction wall which comprise the end plates 18 and 20, may be shape | molded integrally, and a some member may be applied as needed.

  According to the embodiment of the present invention, the rotating electrical machine can be more efficiently cooled by more effectively utilizing the cooling medium introduced into the housing that houses the rotating electrical machine.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention can be used in a rotating electric machine that is cooled using a cooling medium, such as a motor generator mounted on a moving body such as a vehicle.

  12, 112 Stator, 13 Stator core, 14, 114 Rotor, 16, 116 Shaft, 18, 20, 118, 120 End plate, 21 End plate end face, 22 Coil, 22a, 22b, 122a, 122b Coil end, 24, 124 Refrigerant Distribution pipe, 24a, 24b, 40, 124a, 124b Discharge hole, 26 Refrigerant delivery pump, 28 Refrigerant supply flow path, 29 Refrigerant discharge flow path, 30 Cooling device, 36 Case, 38 Induction path, 42 Circumferential wall, 43 Inner wall, 44 groove, 46 scattering induction end, 48 radial wall, 50 object to be cooled, 100,200 rotating electric machine.

Claims (6)

In a rotating electrical machine comprising: a stator disposed so as to form a hollow portion in an inner portion; and a rotor disposed in the hollow portion and rotatable to face the stator, an end portion in the axial direction of the rotor An end plate disposed on
A radial wall extending radially in the radial direction of the rotor on the outer peripheral portion, and a plurality of radial walls arranged in the circumferential direction, and
A circumferential wall arranged in a circumferential direction so as to connect the adjacent radial walls;
An end plate comprising: The end plate according to claim 1,
The outer peripheral portion is formed with a concave groove defined by the radial wall and the circumferential wall,
The end plate is characterized in that the axial end surface is inclined so that at least the circumferential wall side is raised. A stator disposed to form a hollow portion in the inner portion;
A rotor disposed in the hollow portion and rotatable to face the stator;
A coil end provided at an end of the stator so as to protrude from both axial end portions of the rotor;
An end plate disposed at an axial end of the rotor;
A rotating electric machine comprising:
A radial wall extending radially in the radial direction of the rotor on the outer peripheral portion of the end plate, and a plurality of radial walls arranged in the circumferential direction, and
A circumferential wall arranged in a circumferential direction so as to connect the adjacent radial walls;
A rotating electric machine comprising: In the rotating electrical machine according to claim 3,
A concave groove defined by the radial wall and the circumferential wall is formed on the outer peripheral portion of the end plate,
The rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein an end surface in the axial direction of the end plate is inclined so that at least an end portion side of the circumferential wall is raised. In the rotating electrical machine according to claim 4,
Further comprising a coolant channel for circulating a cooling medium in a direction parallel to the rotation axis of the rotor,
The end plate is formed so that the cooling medium flowing out from the refrigerant flow path and temporarily stored in the concave groove is scattered toward the object to be cooled by the rotation of the end plate. A rotating electric machine that is characterized. In the rotating electrical machine according to claim 3 or 4,
The end plate has a discharge hole for discharging a cooling medium flowing through the rotor to the axial end surface;
The rotating electrical machine is formed so that the cooling medium discharged from the discharge hole is scattered toward the cooling object by rotation of the end plate.

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