US20010043018A1 - Alternating current machines - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to an alternating current machine and more particularly although not exclusively to an AC generator.
- An alternating current machine comprises a rotor journalled for rotation within a stator comprising stator windings which are gathered together into an annular array at either end of the stator.
- the stator windings may be perfect lap windings or perfect concentric windings. Either way they comprise handles of generally parallel conductors which are led from end to end of the stator and turned around at either end so as to be led back along the length of the stator.
- the bundles of conductors are led from end to end of the stator along generally parallel paths and form pairs of terminal leads at either end, the terminal leads being taken from one end of the stator to neutral and power output terminals of the machine to which they are connected.
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,175,458 discloses an assembly for carrying stator terminal leads to a terminator to which an electrical connection can be made.
- the alternator for which this assembly is designed is relatively small.
- the assembly comprises an arcuate, or horseshoe-shaped member which is fitted to the appropriate end of the stator.
- the horseshoe-shaped member is solid and has three circumterentially extending channels defined in its outer surface. Each channel receives a terminal lead which is an extension of a stator winding and leads that terminal lead along the circumferentially extending track it forms to the terminator to which it is connected.
- the channels are axially spaced from one another. This arrangement would suffer from cooling problems if it were to be used in large alternating current machines because the terminal leads would be shielded from cooling air flow through the stator.
- DE-A-1144382 illustrates an arrangement of output terminals of an alternating current machine to which stator winding terminal leads may be connected.
- Each terminal to which such a terminal lead is connected is supported by a metal angle member to which it is riveted.
- the angle members are spaced from one another and are mounted at either end on a support fixed to the casing through a respective insulator.
- FR-A-2693848 disclosed a mounting for distribution busbars in which the busbars are clamped between elongate mouldings which fill spaces between faces of adjacent busbars.
- the mouldings have a uniform cross-section with flat sides which are in face to face abutment with the faces of the busbars. Gaps remain between the edges of adjacent busbars and adjacent mouldings since the mouldings are spaced from one another by the thickness of the busbars.
- the stack of mouldings and busbars is clamped by nuts fitted to the ends of screws which extend through the gaps and through aligned holes in the mouldings.
- busbars of the terminal arrangement of a three phase machine so that the leads can be connected to their portions below the structural panel permanently and adjustment between a series star connection and parallel star connection can be made from above the structural panel without altering the connection of the leads below.
- This is achieved by providing for each of the three power output busbars and the respective neutral busbars, a respective pair of spaced busbars which extend through the structural panel in substantially the same way as the neutral and power output busbars between which they are located.
- Each such respective pair of spaced busbars are connected together by a suitable link above the structural panel for a series star connection.
- one busbar of each such respective pair is connected to the adjacent neutral busbar and the other busbar of the respective pair is connected to the adjacent power output busbar for a parallel star connection, such connections between the busbars being made by suitable links above the structural panel.
- the rotor of an alternating current machine may carry a fan at the end of the stator remote from the terminal leads.
- the fan would be operable to draw air through the stator from the remote end therof in order to cool the stator windings.
- DE-A-2526532 discloses such a rotor and fan arrangement.
- the fan is within a casing which cooperates with it to provide a conduit for discharge of air flow from the fan, the conduit being in the form of a volute whereby its area increases progressively in the downstream direction.
- a volute casing improves the cooling by increasing the volume of air that is drawn through the stator by the fan for discharge through the discharge passage formed by the volute casing, even more cooling is desirable.
- FIG. 1. is a side elevation of the AC generator with part of the casing cut away;
- FIG. 2. is an end elevation of the AC generator as seen in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3. is a sectioned view of the right hand end part of the AC generator as shown in FIG. 1 which includes a fan, the section being on the line III-III in FIG. 2;
- FIG. 4. is a section on the line IV-IV of FIG. 1 showing the fan within its casing
- FIG. 5. is a side elevation drawn to a larger scale than is shown in FIG. 1, of the upper part of the stator of the AC generator shown in FIG. 1 and as seen in the direction of arrow C in FIG. 6, with the windings that emerge from it at either end and the arrangement of output leads at the left hand end, a modification of the latter being shown chain dotted;
- FIG. 6. is a partly sectioned end elevation of the stator shown in FIG. 5 to a larger scale, the section being on the line VI-VI in FIG. 5;
- FIG. 7. is a fragmentary view showing one of the circumferential array of cleats shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, mounted on a group of lap windings at the left hand end of the stator as shown in FIG. 5;
- FIG. 8. is a section on the line VIII-VIII in FIG. 6, to a larger scale than in FIGS. 5 and 6;
- FIG. 9. is a view in elevation of the terminal block as shown dotted in FIG. 1, to a larger scale and in more detail;
- FIG. 10 is a side view of the terminal block shown in FIG. 9 as seen along arrow B in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 11. is a view in perspective from the underside of the terminal block of the AC generator as shown in FIGS. 1, 9 and 10 ;
- FIG. 12. is a perspective view from above of the terminal block shown in FIG. 11;
- FIG. 13 is a diagrammatic cross section of stator windings arranged in a “perfect” concentric configuration:
- FIG. 14. is a section on the line XIV-XIV In FIG. 13 of windings in a longitudinally extending groove in the inner surface of the stator:
- FIGS. 15 and 16 are views similar to FIGS. 6 and 8 respectively of the modified form of the AC generator shown in FIGS. 1 to 14 which in illustrated in chain dotted lines in FIG. 5, FIG. 16 being a section on the line XVI-XVI in FIG. 15.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 show an AC generator which comprises a casing 21 .
- an output terminal block 22 by which a three phase alternating current generated by the AC generator is collected from armature windings 23 (see FIG. 1) on a stator 24 which is housed within the casing 21 .
- a rotor 25 is journalled in the stator 24 .
- the rotor 25 carries a coupling plate 26 at its right hand end, as seen in FIG. 1.
- the coupling plate 26 is for coupling to a fly-wheel of a prime mover or engine whereby the rotor 25 is driven.
- FIG. 3 shows the right hand end of the rotor 25 projecting from the right hand end of the stator 24
- a radial flow fan 27 is bolted onto a hub 28 which is force fitted onto the end of the rotor 25 adjacent the coupling plate 26 which is fixed to it by set screws 29 .
- the fan 27 may be forced fitted directly onto the rotor 25 instead.
- FIGS. 3 and 4 show the fan 27 is surrounded by a volute casing 30 which is bolted to the end of the casing 21 .
- the volute casing 30 is formed so that two diametrically opposed portions of it diverge in the downstream direction from the path traced by the tips of the blades 31 of the fan 27 .
- two diametrically opposed passages 32 for the discharge of air from the fan 27 are formed between the fan 27 and the volute casing 30 , the cross-sectional area of each of these discharge passages 32 increasing progressively in the discharge direction.
- Each blade 31 projects from the hub 28 at an angle which is oblique to the notional radius that passes through the root of that blade 31 , each blade 31 diverging from its respective notional radius in a direction which is upstream with respect to air flow generated by the fan 27 .
- the tip 33 of each blade 31 is tapered so that it converges with the axis of rotation, the angle of taper being of the order of 12.5 degrees and the taper being towards the coupling plate 26 .
- FIG. 5 shows the stator 24 with the casing 21 and the rotor 25 removed.
- the stator windings 23 may be either perfect lap windings or perfect concentric windings as will be understood by a man skilled in the art.
- stator windings 23 are extended outwards from the left hand end of the stator 24 , as seen in FIG. 5, to form leads 34 by which the stator windings 23 are connected to the terminal block 22 .
- leads 34 project from the stator 24 initially as an axially extending circumferentially spaced array.
- leads 34 there are twelve pairs of such leads 34 , each pair being extensions of the opposite ends of a respective one of the stator windings 23 and being angularly spaced from one another by about 155°.
- a circumferential array of cleats 35 project from the end of the stator sore on which they are mounted.
- FIG. 6 shows that one of the cleats 35 is located at the top of the stator 24 and the others are equally spaced at angular intervals of about 30°.
- FIG. 7 shows an exemplary group of stator windings 23 at the end of the stator 24 from which the power output leads 34 are led to the output terminal block 22 .
- Each winding 23 comprises a bunch of generally parallel wire conductors 36 which are led along generally parallel paths which run the length of the stator 24 from end to end and which are turned around at either end, so that a bunch of wire conductors 36 which emerges from one axially extending path in the stator 24 at one end of the stator 24 is turned around to re-enter a parallel axially extending path in the stator 24 .
- windings 23 are a perfect lap winding arrangement so that each curved winding portion 37 by which the wire conductors 36 are so turned around overlap several of the adjacent curved winding portions 37 that are spaced from it in one circumferential direction around the stator 24 , those being the other winding portions 37 that emerge from the stator 24 between its point of emergence from the stator 24 and its point of re-entry to the stator 52 . Also, there are two bunches of conductors 36 laid one on the other in each parallel path in the stator 24 . All the reentrant conductors 36 are laid over the other bunch of conductors 36 that they overlap, in the respective path. Each of these windings 23 has two ends which are extended outwards from the stator 24 to form the power output leads 34 by which the stator windings 23 are connected to the terminal block 22 .
- Each cleat 35 is a moulding of an electrically insulating plastics material such as nylon.
- FIG. 3 shows that each cleat 35 comprises an elongate back portion 39 from which seven prongs 41 project laterally so that it has the form of a comb.
- Each cleat 35 is mounted on the stator core with its back portion 39 extending axially with respect to the stator 24 and with the prongs 41 projecting radially outwardly.
- the prongs 41 are shaped so that the nearer sides of juxtaposed prongs 41 converge.
- each of the intervening spaces of each cleat 35 is thereby adapted to receive a lead 34 which is fitted into it with a snap action through its narrow mouth and which is retained in it by the prongs 37 .
- Two spaced walls 42 project from the back portion 39 in the opposite direction to that in which the prongs 41 project, each side wall 42 extending from a respective one of the two longitudinally extending edges of the hack portion 39 .
- the spacing between the two side walls 42 is bridged at one end of the cleat 35 by a flat plate-like element 43 at the ends of the side walls 42 remote from the back portion 39 , the plate-like element 43 projecting from the end of the side walls 42 to form a projecting tongue 44 .
- the space between the side walls 42 is also bridged by another short plate-like portion 45 at a location which is about three-quarters of the length of the cleat 35 from the plate-like element 43 .
- the thickness of the plate-like portion 45 increases progressively in the direction away from the plate-like element 43 , flaring outwardly from the back portion 39 to the end which is remote from the plate-like element 43 .
- each prong 41 has a rectangular recess 46 formed in it substantially centrally.
- the recesses 46 in each prong 41 are aligned.
- Each cleat 35 is provided with a respective strap 47 by which it is fastened to the adjacent group of curved stator winding portions 37 .
- the strap 47 has a rectangular cross-section and is provided at one end with a ring portion 48 which serves as a retaining socket, the aperture of the socket having a similar form, it being for receiving the other end of the strap 47 .
- One of the sides of the strap 47 is provided with formations which engage in a corresponding formation in the inner periphery of the ring portion 48 whereby the length of strap 47 threaded through the aperture of the ring portion 48 is retained therein against being pulled back.
- the strap 47 is laid in the recesses 46 at the ends of the prongs 41 so that it projects from either end of the cleat 35 , the ring portion 48 being to the left as seen in FIG. 8.
- the ring portion 48 is threaded into the channel between the side walls 42 and through the gap between the back portion 39 and the plate-like element 43 . From there it is drawn through the gap between the plate-like element 43 and the plate-like portion 45 and passed around the plate-like portion 45 to the other end of the cleat 35 where it is fitted over the other end of the strap 47 which protrudes from the cleat 35 so as to complete a loop formed by the strap 47 which surrounds the cleat 35 .
- the flared plate-like portion 45 rests upon the adjacent curved stator winding portion 37 and the tongue 44 locates against the end of the stator 24 .
- the curved winding portions 37 that are below the cleat 35 are encircled by the strap 47 so that they are trapped between the strap 47 and the lower edges of the side walls 42 of the cleat 35 whereby the cleat 35 is fastened to them.
- the length of the strap 47 which is laid within the recesses 46 in the prongs 41 serves to brace leads 34 within the respective intervening spaces between juxtaposed prongs 41 through which they are led from the stator windings 23 to the terminal block 22 to resist electromagnetic forces, which would otherwise tend to displace them, especially under fault conditions, such as sudden or sustained short circuit faults, externally imposed on the alternator by the power transmission or distribution system to which it may be connected.
- the prongs also serve as spacers which space juxtaposed terminal leads 34 apart and react electromagnetic forces which act to urge towards them the leads 34 that they separate.
- the strap 47 is a moulding of electrically insulating plastics material such as nylon.
- the six radially outwardly tapered spaces formed between the prongs 41 of each of the cleats 35 are arranged as a circumferentially spaced series and thereby define six juxtaposed circumferential tracks for the leads 34 by which those leads 34 are guided from the stator 24 to a location to one side of and above the stator 24 at which they terminate as an array of twenty four upwardly projecting terminals 49 .
- FIGS. 1, 5 and 6 show that the leads 34 are spaced from one another in the direction of the axis of the stator 24 as they are led side by side around the six circumferentially extending tracks formed by the cleats 35 .
- the linking together of the circumferential array of cleats 35 by the leads 34 into the grid structure provides additional strength to resist the effect of electromagnetic forces which, as previously described, would tend to displace the leads 34 and the protruding windings 23 under fault conditions, and thus augments the resistance to such electromagnetic forces provided by the straps 47 of each individual cleat 35 of the array.
- FIG. 6 shows the arrangement of the four leads 34 A and B and 34 C and D that are led around an exemplary one of the circumferentially extending tracks, that being the track that is formed by those spaces of the cleats 35 that are nearest to the stator 24 .
- the lead 34 A extends axially from the stator 24 at a location which is spaced angularly from the top of the stator 24 by a few ° so that it is just to the right of the cleat 35 T at the top, as seen in FIG. 6. From there it is bent towards and snap-fitted into that cleat 35 T from which it is bent upwards to its terminal 49 .
- the lead 34 B which is the other of the respective pair of leads 34 that are extensions of the opposite ends of a respective one of the stator windings 23 , extends axially from the stator 24 at a location which is spaced angularly from the bottom of the stator 24 by about 25°. It is bent towards and snap-fitted into the respective space in the cleat 35 A that is spaced from the bottom of the stator 24 by 30° and to the right as seen in FIG. 6. The lead 34 B is then snap-fitted into the respective space in each of the other four cleats 35 B- 35 E on the same side of the stator 24 and finally it is snap-fitted into the cleat 35 T above the lead 34 A as can be seen from FIG. 6 The lead 34 B is then bent upwards to its terminal 49 alongside the lead 34 A.
- the lead 34 C emerges axially just to the left of the bottom cleat 35 L. This is bent towards and snap-fitted into the respective space in the cleat 35 F that is spaced from the bottom of the stator 24 by 25° and to the left as seen in FIG. 6. It is then snap-fitted into the corresponding space in each of the other four cleats 35 G to 35 K on the same side of the stator 24 .
- the other lead 34 D of the respective pair emerges axially from the stator 24 just to the right of the cleat 35 K. The two leads 34 C and 34 D are then bent together upwards to their respective terminals 49 alongside the pair of leads 34 A and 34 B.
- each of the six tracks leads a respective group of two pairs of leads 34 so that they extend upwardly to their terminals 49 in a manner similar to that described above with reference to FIG. 6.
- FIGS. 9 and 10 show that the terminal block 22 comprises a structural panel 51 .
- This panel 51 is formed of six similar elongate angle members 52 A to 52 F which are arranged in three juxtaposed pairs.
- the upright faces 53 A and 53 B, 53 C and 53 D, 53 E and 53 F, are abutting and the adjacent edges of the horizontal sides of juxtaposed angle members 52 A to 52 F are also abutting so that the six angle members 52 A to 52 F present a substantially continuous uninterrupted surface at the bottom of the terminal block 22 .
- Each pair of abutting faces 53 A- 53 F of each pair of angle members 52 A and 52 B, 52 C and 52 D, 52 E and 52 F, have opposed grooves 54 and 55 formed in them running substantially vertically from the top to the bottom.
- the outer pair 54 of these four grooves are each about twice as long as each of the inner pair 55 of those grooves.
- Each opposed pair of grooves 54 and 55 in the abutting faces 53 A- 53 F forms a rectangular section through passage running between the top and the bottom of the abutting vertical faces 53 A- 53 F of the abutting angle members 52 A- 52 F.
- Each such a through passage receives a respective busbar 56 - 58 , 61 - 69 which is a close fit therein.
- the twelve busbars 56 - 58 , 61 - 69 depend below the panel 51 spaced one from another, as can be seen in FIG. 11, and each provides a terminal connection to which a respective terminal 49 of the leads 34 from the stator windings 23 is connected.
- Each of these busbars 56 - 58 , 61 - 69 also projects above the panel 51 .
- Each of the angle members 52 is formed from an insulating structural plastics material, such as nylon, by moulding.
- the three busbars, 61 - 63 , of the other group that extend through the three right hand larger through passages 54 , as seen in FIGS. 11 and 12 are bent over at 90° above the panel 51 and are each connected to a common busbar 71 which provides the neutral output terminal of the AC generator.
- the two further groups of three separate busbars 64 - 66 and 67 - 69 that are provided between the three busbars 56 - 58 which serve as the three output terminals U, V and W and the other three busbars 61 - 63 that are connected together to the neutral output terminal 71 , are spaced from each other and from those other busbars 56 - 58 , 61 - 63 so as to be electrically insulated therefrom by the electrically insulating material of the structural panel 51 .
- Each of the busbars 64 - 69 is located within a respective rectangular through passage which is formed by appropriate ones of the smaller grooves 55 in the abutting faces 53 of the angle members 52 .
- Each of these two groups of three additional busbars 64 - 66 , 67 - 69 is in line with a respective one of the output terminals U, V and W and the aligned busbar 61 - 63 that is connected to the neutral output terminal 71 .
- the twelve busbars 56 - 58 , 63 - 69 are arranged in four columns and in three rows.
- each of the pairs of busbars 64 and 67 , 65 and 68 , 66 and 69 between a respective one of the three output terminals U, V and W and a respective one of the busbars 61 - 63 which is connected to the neutral output terminal 71 is connected together by a respective connecting link 72 - 74 .
- those connecting links 72 - 74 are removed and replaced by separate connecting links 75 and 76 , 77 and 78 , 81 and 82 which are shown chain dotted in FIG.
- each of the busbars 64 - 69 that is between a power output terminal U, V, W and the respective busbar 61 - 63 that is connected to the neutral output terminal 71 is itself connected by a respective connecting link 15 - 18 , 81 , 82 to the adjacent one of the respective power output terminals U, V, W or the neutral terminal busbar 61 - 63 as can be seen from FIG. 12.
- the connecting links 75 - 78 , 81 . 82 which connect the busbars together for either a series star output arrangement or a parallel star output arrangement are above the structural panel 51 .
- connection arrangement can be changed from one to the other by working from above the structural panel 51 and there is no need to provide for access to the connections of the leads 34 to the busbars below the structural panel, which may therefore be permanent
- a terminal block 22 which supports the electrical connections between the leads 34 and the output terminals U,V,W of the AC generator which is light in weight and which presents a substantially uninterrupted and electrically insulating barrier between the working area above those terminals U,V,W and the area within the casing 21 below the terminal block 22 such that there is a minimal risk of tools or debris being dropped or failing unintentionally into the AC generator during assembly or refurbishing.
- connection of the generator can be altered between series star and parallel star simply by changing over connections above that electrically insulating barrier.
- the construction of the terminal block 22 whereby it comprises six angle members 52 arranged side by side with upright faces 53 of adjacent angle members 52 abutting one another and adjacent edges of horizontal sides of those angle members 52 abutting one another as well, to form the substantially uninterrupted barrier, leads to the resultant panel 51 being a rigid formation.
- FIG. 13 shows armature windings which comprise-twelve sets 83 . 1 - 83 . 12 of perfect concentric windings.
- Each set 83 . 1 - 83 . 12 of perfect concentric windings comprises a single conductor which is bent into four loops, one within another so that the four loops can lie substantially ill the same plane, each loop being generally rectangular.
- the long sides (conductors 36 ) of each loop of a set of windings 83 . 1 - 83 . 12 are laid in a respective axially-extending slot 84 (see FIG.
- each winding set 83 . 1 - 83 . 12 has two output leads 34 , one being a neutral lead and the other being a positive output lead.
- FIG. 14 shows that each stator slot 84 within which one long side 36 of a loop of a “perfect” concentric winding set 83 . 1 - 83 . 12 is laid upon another, is lined by an insulation 85 . Also a Nomex shoe 86 is provided between the two loop side conductors 36 laid one on the other in the slot 84 . Another such shoe 87 of insulating material, a Nomex polyester mixture, is laid on the one of those conductors 36 that is nearer the mouth of the slot 84 . The latter is narrower than the remainder of the slot 84 and an epoxy glass board 88 , which is wider than the mouth, closes that mouth so as to retain the shoes 86 and 87 and the conductors 36 within the slot 84 .
- the right hand end of the stator 24 is known as the “Drive End”.
- the overhanging ends of the sets of windings 83 . 1 - 83 . 12 at the “Drive End” comprise the closed ends of all the loops of the twelve sets 83 . 1 - 83 . 12 of windings at the ends of those sets 83 . 1 - 83 . 12 remote from the terminal leads 34 and together comprise a circumferentially-extending annular array of windings 23 .
- This circumferential array is encased in a wide mesh net 89 of lacing cord (as shown in FIG.) and is embraced around its outer surface by an encircling bracing rope 91 .
- the bracing rope 91 comprises an inner core of pre-stressed linear mono-glass filaments within a woven outer sheath formed by braiding and impregnated with a thermosetting resin after assembly to comprise a rigid ring which restrains the winding array against displacement that may otherwise be caused in reaction to electromagnetic forces induced in the overhanging windings at that end of the stator 24 by high fault levels that may occur in a power transmission or distribution system into which the AC generator is installed.
- the prestressed linear mono-glass filaments encased in the outer sheath of braided polyester fibres is sufficiently flexible prior to impregnation with the insulating resin, for it to be wrapped around the overhanging portions of the windings 23 so that it closely conforms to the irregular shape of that overhanging portion, it being moulded into a rigid ring body having that form after the resin has set.
- the circumferential array of windings 23 at the “Non Drive End” is encased in a wide mesh net of lacing cord and is embraced at its end that is spaced from the stator 24 by a bracing rope 92 .
- the bracing rope 92 is disposed radially inwardly with respect to the cleats 35 because of the presence of the latter. Otherwise it is formed in substantially the same manner as has been described above for the bracing rope 91 at the “Drive End”.
- the coupling plate 26 is coupled to a fly-wheel of a driving prime mover or engine.
- its rotor windings are energised either by a direct current supply which is supplied to those windings via terminals on the rotor 25 through brushes and slip rings or, in the case of a brushless AC generator, by a rectified output of a separate small excitor which is usually mounted on the same shaft as the rotor 25 .
- the latter has a DC stator winding and a 3-phase or single phase winding on its rotor, the output of which is rectified and fed to the windings on the rotor 25 .
- This excitation current whether it is a separate DC supply or a rectified output of an exciter is a current of lower strength than the output of the AC generator.
- the driving prime motor is actuated to rotate the rotor 25 within the stator 24 .
- the output current is generated in the stator windings 23 by mutual induction in the usual way and is led through the leads 34 to the terminals U, V, W of the terminal block.
- the fan 27 rotates with the rotor 25 , draws air through the stator 24 from the remote end thereof and discharges that air through the discharge passages 32 formed by the volute casing 30 .
- Use of the volute casing 30 improves the cooling by increasing the volume of air that is drawn through the stator 24 by the fan 27 for discharge through the discharge passages 32 formed by the volute casing 30 .
- the arrangement of the blades 31 whereby they are oblique to the radial so that they trail the radial contributes to this arrangement.
- the tapering of the tips of the blades 31 leads to a lower noise output than has been found to be the case where the blades had tips which were substantially parallel to the axis of rotation.
- the air that is drawn through the stator 24 by the fan 27 is also drawn into the stator 24 around and through the leads 34 that are led around the six axially spaced circumferentially extending tracks formed by the circumferential array of cleats 35 , those leads 34 being supported in free space by the cleats 35 with which they cooperate to form a grid structure as has been described above, the interstices of that grid structure serving as ventilation spaces through which that air is drawn. This enhances the ventilation of those leads 34 and further improves the cooling of the AC generator.
- the arrangement of the terminal block 22 results in the physical support for the metal busbars 56 - 59 , 64 - 69 which conveniently are formed of a tin plated copper, being provided by the insulating material which is considerably more light weight than the conventional welded structure.
- FIGS. 15 and 16 show a modification of the AC generator described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 14 .
- Parts of the generator shown in FIGS. 15 and 16 which are similar to corresponding parts of the generator shown in FIGS. 1 to 14 are identified by the same reference characters.
- the generator shown in FIGS. 15 and 16 has “perfect” concentric windings 83 as have been described above with reference to FIGS. 13 and 14.
- FIG. 15 shows a circumferential array of six cleats 93 which are mounted on the curved winding portions that comprise the ends of the twelve sets 83 . 1 - 83 . 12 of winding portions that project from the “Non Drive End” of the stator 24 .
- FIG. 16 shows that each of those cleats 93 is similar to the cleat 35 that has been described above with reference to and as shown in FIG. 8, except that the back portion 39 of the cleat 93 projects axially beyond the prongs 41 at the end thereof remote from the tongue 44 to form a shoulder 94 with the prong 41 that is furthest from the tongue 44 .
- each of the circumferential array of cleats 93 provides a seat for a solid ring 95 of copper (shown chain dotted in FIG. 5) which rests thereon whereby the ring 95 is supported by the circumferential array of cleats 93 .
- the ring 95 is not a complete circle but extends over about 350°, the spaced ends of the resultant loop being at the top.
- Each of the neutral leads of the windings 23 is electrically connected to the ring 95 so supported on the annular array of cleats 93 .
- the end of each such neutral lead is bared by removing the enamel coating to expose copper whereby to provide a good copper-copper contact.
- the ring 95 is retained upon its seat on each cleat 93 by the strap 47 that is passed around it.
- Each of the depending portions of the six narrower busbars 64 - 69 shown in FIG. 11 and each of the load output terminals 56 - 58 has a respective pair of the positive output leads 34 connected to it.
- Two neutral connectors 96 and 97 are connected to one of the depending portions of the neutral busbars 61 - 63 (indeed the neutral busbars 61 - 63 may be arranged so that only one of them depends below the panel 51 ).
- Each of those neutral connectors 96 and 97 is connected to a respective end of the open loop that comprises the solid ring 95 .
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An AC generator comprises a rotor 25 within a stator 24. The rotor carries a fan 27 at one end of the stator. The fan 27 is within a casing 30 which forms volute discharge passages 32. The fan 27 has blades 31 which project from the hub 28 at an angle which is oblique to the radial whereby those blades 31 trail the radial. The stator windings 23 form terminal leads 34 which are led from the end of the stator 24 remote from the fan 27. A circumferential array of cleats 35 which each have the form of a comb, support and guide the terminal leads 34 circumferentially, spaced from one another, to a certain location at the top from which the leads are taken and connected to terminals above. Those terminals are formed by the lower ends of busbars (56 to 58, 61 to 69) which extend through and which are supported by a structural panel of insulating material which forms an insulating barrier between the ends of those busbars. The upper end of each of those busbars forms the power output terminals U, V and W and the neutral terminals of the machine.
Description
- This invention relates to an alternating current machine and more particularly although not exclusively to an AC generator.
- An alternating current machine comprises a rotor journalled for rotation within a stator comprising stator windings which are gathered together into an annular array at either end of the stator. The stator windings may be perfect lap windings or perfect concentric windings. Either way they comprise handles of generally parallel conductors which are led from end to end of the stator and turned around at either end so as to be led back along the length of the stator. The bundles of conductors are led from end to end of the stator along generally parallel paths and form pairs of terminal leads at either end, the terminal leads being taken from one end of the stator to neutral and power output terminals of the machine to which they are connected.
- It the terminal leads are bunched together as a solid mass, problems with hot spots arise. Also difficulties arise which cause the terminals to which terminal leads are connected to be located well spaced from the axis of rotation of the rotor. In practice there is no insulation between those terminals and the annular array of stator windings of the machine as is shown in DE-A-1144382.
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,175,458 discloses an assembly for carrying stator terminal leads to a terminator to which an electrical connection can be made. The alternator for which this assembly is designed is relatively small. The assembly comprises an arcuate, or horseshoe-shaped member which is fitted to the appropriate end of the stator. The horseshoe-shaped member is solid and has three circumterentially extending channels defined in its outer surface. Each channel receives a terminal lead which is an extension of a stator winding and leads that terminal lead along the circumferentially extending track it forms to the terminator to which it is connected. The channels are axially spaced from one another. This arrangement would suffer from cooling problems if it were to be used in large alternating current machines because the terminal leads would be shielded from cooling air flow through the stator.
- According to one aspect of this invention there is provided an alternating current machine as claimed in
claim 1 Preferred features of that alternating current machine are claimed in claims 2 to 24. - DE-A-1144382 illustrates an arrangement of output terminals of an alternating current machine to which stator winding terminal leads may be connected. Each terminal to which such a terminal lead is connected is supported by a metal angle member to which it is riveted. The angle members are spaced from one another and are mounted at either end on a support fixed to the casing through a respective insulator. The electromagnetic forces that can be generated under fault conditions, such as sudden or sustained short circuit faults externally imposed an the machine by the power transmission or distribution system to which it may be connected, can cause the angle members to which the terminals are riveted to twist and in the extreme case, cause adjacent terminals to contact one another with undesirable consequences.
- FR-A-2693848 disclosed a mounting for distribution busbars in which the busbars are clamped between elongate mouldings which fill spaces between faces of adjacent busbars. The mouldings have a uniform cross-section with flat sides which are in face to face abutment with the faces of the busbars. Gaps remain between the edges of adjacent busbars and adjacent mouldings since the mouldings are spaced from one another by the thickness of the busbars. The stack of mouldings and busbars is clamped by nuts fitted to the ends of screws which extend through the gaps and through aligned holes in the mouldings.
- According to another aspect of this invention there is provided a terminal arrangement for leads from stator windings of an alternating current machine as claimed in
claim 25. Preferred features of that terminal arrangement are claimed inclaims - It is desirable to arrange the busbars of the terminal arrangement of a three phase machine so that the leads can be connected to their portions below the structural panel permanently and adjustment between a series star connection and parallel star connection can be made from above the structural panel without altering the connection of the leads below. This is achieved by providing for each of the three power output busbars and the respective neutral busbars, a respective pair of spaced busbars which extend through the structural panel in substantially the same way as the neutral and power output busbars between which they are located. Each such respective pair of spaced busbars are connected together by a suitable link above the structural panel for a series star connection. On the other hand, one busbar of each such respective pair is connected to the adjacent neutral busbar and the other busbar of the respective pair is connected to the adjacent power output busbar for a parallel star connection, such connections between the busbars being made by suitable links above the structural panel.
- The rotor of an alternating current machine may carry a fan at the end of the stator remote from the terminal leads. The fan would be operable to draw air through the stator from the remote end therof in order to cool the stator windings.
- DE-A-2526532 discloses such a rotor and fan arrangement. The fan is within a casing which cooperates with it to provide a conduit for discharge of air flow from the fan, the conduit being in the form of a volute whereby its area increases progressively in the downstream direction. Although such use of a volute casing improves the cooling by increasing the volume of air that is drawn through the stator by the fan for discharge through the discharge passage formed by the volute casing, even more cooling is desirable.
- According to a further aspect of this invention Lhere is provided all alternating current machine according to
claim 28. Preferred features of that alternating crrent machine are claimed inclaims 29 to 31. - A three phase AC generator which embodies this invention and certain modifications thereof will be described now by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, of which:
- FIG. 1. is a side elevation of the AC generator with part of the casing cut away;
- FIG. 2. is an end elevation of the AC generator as seen in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3. is a sectioned view of the right hand end part of the AC generator as shown in FIG. 1 which includes a fan, the section being on the line III-III in FIG. 2;
- FIG. 4. is a section on the line IV-IV of FIG. 1 showing the fan within its casing;
- FIG. 5. is a side elevation drawn to a larger scale than is shown in FIG. 1, of the upper part of the stator of the AC generator shown in FIG. 1 and as seen in the direction of arrow C in FIG. 6, with the windings that emerge from it at either end and the arrangement of output leads at the left hand end, a modification of the latter being shown chain dotted;
- FIG. 6. is a partly sectioned end elevation of the stator shown in FIG. 5 to a larger scale, the section being on the line VI-VI in FIG. 5;
- FIG. 7. is a fragmentary view showing one of the circumferential array of cleats shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, mounted on a group of lap windings at the left hand end of the stator as shown in FIG. 5;
- FIG. 8. is a section on the line VIII-VIII in FIG. 6, to a larger scale than in FIGS. 5 and 6;
- FIG. 9. is a view in elevation of the terminal block as shown dotted in FIG. 1, to a larger scale and in more detail;
- FIG. 10. is a side view of the terminal block shown in FIG. 9 as seen along arrow B in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 11. is a view in perspective from the underside of the terminal block of the AC generator as shown in FIGS. 1, 9 and10;
- FIG. 12. is a perspective view from above of the terminal block shown in FIG. 11;
- FIG. 13. is a diagrammatic cross section of stator windings arranged in a “perfect” concentric configuration:
- FIG. 14. is a section on the line XIV-XIV In FIG. 13 of windings in a longitudinally extending groove in the inner surface of the stator: and
- FIGS. 15 and 16 are views similar to FIGS. 6 and 8 respectively of the modified form of the AC generator shown in FIGS.1 to 14 which in illustrated in chain dotted lines in FIG. 5, FIG. 16 being a section on the line XVI-XVI in FIG. 15.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 show an AC generator which comprises a
casing 21. At the left hand of thecasing 21, as seen in FIG. 1, there is anoutput terminal block 22 by which a three phase alternating current generated by the AC generator is collected from armature windings 23 (see FIG. 1) on astator 24 which is housed within thecasing 21. Arotor 25 is journalled in thestator 24. Therotor 25 carries acoupling plate 26 at its right hand end, as seen in FIG. 1. Thecoupling plate 26 is for coupling to a fly-wheel of a prime mover or engine whereby therotor 25 is driven. - FIG. 3 shows the right hand end of the
rotor 25 projecting from the right hand end of the stator 24 Aradial flow fan 27 is bolted onto ahub 28 which is force fitted onto the end of therotor 25 adjacent thecoupling plate 26 which is fixed to it byset screws 29. Thefan 27 may be forced fitted directly onto therotor 25 instead. - FIGS. 3 and 4 show the
fan 27 is surrounded by avolute casing 30 which is bolted to the end of thecasing 21. Thevolute casing 30 is formed so that two diametrically opposed portions of it diverge in the downstream direction from the path traced by the tips of theblades 31 of thefan 27. Hence two diametricallyopposed passages 32 for the discharge of air from thefan 27 are formed between thefan 27 and thevolute casing 30, the cross-sectional area of each of thesedischarge passages 32 increasing progressively in the discharge direction. - Each
blade 31 projects from thehub 28 at an angle which is oblique to the notional radius that passes through the root of thatblade 31, eachblade 31 diverging from its respective notional radius in a direction which is upstream with respect to air flow generated by thefan 27. Thetip 33 of eachblade 31 is tapered so that it converges with the axis of rotation, the angle of taper being of the order of 12.5 degrees and the taper being towards thecoupling plate 26. - FIG. 5 shows the
stator 24 with thecasing 21 and therotor 25 removed. Thestator windings 23 may be either perfect lap windings or perfect concentric windings as will be understood by a man skilled in the art. - The conductors that form the
stator windings 23 are extended outwards from the left hand end of thestator 24, as seen in FIG. 5, to form leads 34 by which thestator windings 23 are connected to theterminal block 22. Eachlead 34 and the respective stator winding 23 to which it is connected is a one pierce conductor without any electrical connection joining them together. The leads 34 project from thestator 24 initially as an axially extending circumferentially spaced array. There are twelve pairs ofsuch leads 34, each pair being extensions of the opposite ends of a respective one of thestator windings 23 and being angularly spaced from one another by about 155°. - A circumferential array of
cleats 35 project from the end of the stator sore on which they are mounted. FIG. 6 shows that one of thecleats 35 is located at the top of thestator 24 and the others are equally spaced at angular intervals of about 30°. - FIG. 7 shows an exemplary group of
stator windings 23 at the end of thestator 24 from which the power output leads 34 are led to theoutput terminal block 22. Each winding 23 comprises a bunch of generallyparallel wire conductors 36 which are led along generally parallel paths which run the length of thestator 24 from end to end and which are turned around at either end, so that a bunch ofwire conductors 36 which emerges from one axially extending path in thestator 24 at one end of thestator 24 is turned around to re-enter a parallel axially extending path in thestator 24. Thesewindings 23 are a perfect lap winding arrangement so that each curved windingportion 37 by which thewire conductors 36 are so turned around overlap several of the adjacent curved windingportions 37 that are spaced from it in one circumferential direction around thestator 24, those being the other windingportions 37 that emerge from thestator 24 between its point of emergence from thestator 24 and its point of re-entry to the stator 52. Also, there are two bunches ofconductors 36 laid one on the other in each parallel path in thestator 24. All thereentrant conductors 36 are laid over the other bunch ofconductors 36 that they overlap, in the respective path. Each of thesewindings 23 has two ends which are extended outwards from thestator 24 to form the power output leads 34 by which thestator windings 23 are connected to theterminal block 22. - Each
cleat 35 is a moulding of an electrically insulating plastics material such as nylon. FIG. 3 shows that eachcleat 35 comprises anelongate back portion 39 from which sevenprongs 41 project laterally so that it has the form of a comb. Eachcleat 35 is mounted on the stator core with itsback portion 39 extending axially with respect to thestator 24 and with theprongs 41 projecting radially outwardly. Theprongs 41 are shaped so that the nearer sides of juxtaposedprongs 41 converge. Hence each of the intervening spaces of eachcleat 35 is thereby adapted to receive a lead 34 which is fitted into it with a snap action through its narrow mouth and which is retained in it by theprongs 37. Two spacedwalls 42 project from theback portion 39 in the opposite direction to that in which theprongs 41 project, eachside wall 42 extending from a respective one of the two longitudinally extending edges of thehack portion 39. The spacing between the twoside walls 42 is bridged at one end of thecleat 35 by a flat plate-like element 43 at the ends of theside walls 42 remote from theback portion 39, the plate-like element 43 projecting from the end of theside walls 42 to form a projectingtongue 44. The space between theside walls 42 is also bridged by another short plate-like portion 45 at a location which is about three-quarters of the length of thecleat 35 from the plate-like element 43. The thickness of the plate-like portion 45 increases progressively in the direction away from the plate-like element 43, flaring outwardly from theback portion 39 to the end which is remote from the plate-like element 43. - The outer end of each
prong 41 has arectangular recess 46 formed in it substantially centrally. Therecesses 46 in eachprong 41 are aligned. Eachcleat 35 is provided with arespective strap 47 by which it is fastened to the adjacent group of curvedstator winding portions 37. Thestrap 47 has a rectangular cross-section and is provided at one end with aring portion 48 which serves as a retaining socket, the aperture of the socket having a similar form, it being for receiving the other end of thestrap 47. One of the sides of thestrap 47 is provided with formations which engage in a corresponding formation in the inner periphery of thering portion 48 whereby the length ofstrap 47 threaded through the aperture of thering portion 48 is retained therein against being pulled back. - The
strap 47 is laid in therecesses 46 at the ends of theprongs 41 so that it projects from either end of thecleat 35, thering portion 48 being to the left as seen in FIG. 8. Thering portion 48 is threaded into the channel between theside walls 42 and through the gap between theback portion 39 and the plate-like element 43. From there it is drawn through the gap between the plate-like element 43 and the plate-like portion 45 and passed around the plate-like portion 45 to the other end of thecleat 35 where it is fitted over the other end of thestrap 47 which protrudes from thecleat 35 so as to complete a loop formed by thestrap 47 which surrounds thecleat 35. - The flared plate-
like portion 45 rests upon the adjacent curvedstator winding portion 37 and thetongue 44 locates against the end of thestator 24. The curved windingportions 37 that are below thecleat 35 are encircled by thestrap 47 so that they are trapped between thestrap 47 and the lower edges of theside walls 42 of thecleat 35 whereby thecleat 35 is fastened to them. - The length of the
strap 47 which is laid within therecesses 46 in theprongs 41 serves to brace leads 34 within the respective intervening spaces between juxtaposedprongs 41 through which they are led from thestator windings 23 to theterminal block 22 to resist electromagnetic forces, which would otherwise tend to displace them, especially under fault conditions, such as sudden or sustained short circuit faults, externally imposed on the alternator by the power transmission or distribution system to which it may be connected. The prongs also serve as spacers which space juxtaposed terminal leads 34 apart and react electromagnetic forces which act to urge towards them theleads 34 that they separate. - The
strap 47 is a moulding of electrically insulating plastics material such as nylon. - The six radially outwardly tapered spaces formed between the
prongs 41 of each of thecleats 35 are arranged as a circumferentially spaced series and thereby define six juxtaposed circumferential tracks for theleads 34 by which those leads 34 are guided from thestator 24 to a location to one side of and above thestator 24 at which they terminate as an array of twenty four upwardly projectingterminals 49. This can be seen in FIGS. 1, 5 and 6. FIGS. 1 and 5 show that the leads 34 are spaced from one another in the direction of the axis of thestator 24 as they are led side by side around the six circumferentially extending tracks formed by thecleats 35. The circumferential array ofcleats 35 and theleads 34 they guide around the circular path together form a grid structure so that those leads 34 are supported in free space by thecleats 35. Also the interstices of that grid structure serve as ventilation spaces through which air can be drawn past theleads 34 so that the latter are cooled. The linking together of the circumferential array ofcleats 35 by theleads 34 into the grid structure provides additional strength to resist the effect of electromagnetic forces which, as previously described, would tend to displace theleads 34 and the protrudingwindings 23 under fault conditions, and thus augments the resistance to such electromagnetic forces provided by thestraps 47 of eachindividual cleat 35 of the array. - FIG. 6 shows the arrangement of the four
leads 34A and B and 34C and D that are led around an exemplary one of the circumferentially extending tracks, that being the track that is formed by those spaces of thecleats 35 that are nearest to thestator 24. Thelead 34A extends axially from thestator 24 at a location which is spaced angularly from the top of thestator 24 by a few ° so that it is just to the right of thecleat 35T at the top, as seen in FIG. 6. From there it is bent towards and snap-fitted into thatcleat 35T from which it is bent upwards to itsterminal 49. The lead 34B, which is the other of the respective pair ofleads 34 that are extensions of the opposite ends of a respective one of thestator windings 23, extends axially from thestator 24 at a location which is spaced angularly from the bottom of thestator 24 by about 25°. It is bent towards and snap-fitted into the respective space in thecleat 35A that is spaced from the bottom of thestator 24 by 30° and to the right as seen in FIG. 6. The lead 34B is then snap-fitted into the respective space in each of the other fourcleats 35B-35E on the same side of thestator 24 and finally it is snap-fitted into thecleat 35T above thelead 34A as can be seen from FIG. 6 The lead 34B is then bent upwards to its terminal 49 alongside thelead 34A. - The
lead 34C emerges axially just to the left of thebottom cleat 35L. This is bent towards and snap-fitted into the respective space in thecleat 35F that is spaced from the bottom of thestator 24 by 25° and to the left as seen in FIG. 6. It is then snap-fitted into the corresponding space in each of the other fourcleats 35G to 35K on the same side of thestator 24. Theother lead 34D of the respective pair emerges axially from thestator 24 just to the right of thecleat 35K. The two leads 34C and 34D are then bent together upwards to theirrespective terminals 49 alongside the pair ofleads - It will be understood that each of the six tracks leads a respective group of two pairs of
leads 34 so that they extend upwardly to theirterminals 49 in a manner similar to that described above with reference to FIG. 6. - Cleats having only four spaces instead of the six described and illustrated for the
cleats 35 are used in single phase AC generators of otherwise similar design. FIGS. 9 and 10 show that theterminal block 22 comprises astructural panel 51. Thispanel 51 is formed of six similarelongate angle members 52A to 52F which are arranged in three juxtaposed pairs. The upright faces 53A and 53B, 53C and 53D, 53E and 53F, are abutting and the adjacent edges of the horizontal sides ofjuxtaposed angle members 52A to 52F are also abutting so that the sixangle members 52A to 52F present a substantially continuous uninterrupted surface at the bottom of theterminal block 22. Each pair of abutting faces 53A-53F of each pair ofangle members grooves such grooves faces 53A-53F. They are spaced apart along the length of therespective angle members 52A to 52F to the same extent. Theouter pair 54 of these four grooves are each about twice as long as each of theinner pair 55 of those grooves. Each opposed pair ofgrooves vertical faces 53A-53F of theabutting angle members 52A-52F. - Each such a through passage receives a respective busbar56-58, 61-69 which is a close fit therein. The twelve busbars 56-58, 61-69 depend below the
panel 51 spaced one from another, as can be seen in FIG. 11, and each provides a terminal connection to which arespective terminal 49 of theleads 34 from thestator windings 23 is connected. Each of these busbars 56-58, 61-69 also projects above thepanel 51. - Each of the angle members52 is formed from an insulating structural plastics material, such as nylon, by moulding.
- The group of three busbars56-58 that extend through the three left hand larger through
passages 54, as seen in FIGS. 11 and 12, each provides a respective one of the three output terminals U, V and W for the three phase supply generated by the three phase AC generator. The three busbars, 61-63, of the other group that extend through the three right hand larger throughpassages 54, as seen in FIGS. 11 and 12 are bent over at 90° above thepanel 51 and are each connected to acommon busbar 71 which provides the neutral output terminal of the AC generator. - The two further groups of three separate busbars64-66 and 67-69 that are provided between the three busbars 56-58 which serve as the three output terminals U, V and W and the other three busbars 61-63 that are connected together to the
neutral output terminal 71, are spaced from each other and from those other busbars 56-58, 61-63 so as to be electrically insulated therefrom by the electrically insulating material of thestructural panel 51. Each of the busbars 64-69 is located within a respective rectangular through passage which is formed by appropriate ones of thesmaller grooves 55 in the abutting faces 53 of the angle members 52. Each of these two groups of three additional busbars 64-66, 67-69 is in line with a respective one of the output terminals U, V and W and the aligned busbar 61-63 that is connected to theneutral output terminal 71. Hence the twelve busbars 56-58, 63-69 are arranged in four columns and in three rows. - In order to connect the
terminal block 51 to provide a series star three phase output arrangement, each of the pairs ofbusbars neutral output terminal 71, is connected together by a respective connecting link 72-74. In order to alter the output arrangement from the series star arrangement to a parallel star arrangement, those connecting links 72-74 are removed and replaced by separate connectinglinks neutral output terminal 71 is itself connected by a respective connecting link 15-18, 81, 82 to the adjacent one of the respective power output terminals U, V, W or the neutral terminal busbar 61-63 as can be seen from FIG. 12. The connecting links 75-78, 81. 82 which connect the busbars together for either a series star output arrangement or a parallel star output arrangement are above thestructural panel 51. Hence the connection arrangement can be changed from one to the other by working from above thestructural panel 51 and there is no need to provide for access to the connections of theleads 34 to the busbars below the structural panel, which may therefore be permanent Hence there is provided aterminal block 22 which supports the electrical connections between theleads 34 and the output terminals U,V,W of the AC generator which is light in weight and which presents a substantially uninterrupted and electrically insulating barrier between the working area above those terminals U,V,W and the area within thecasing 21 below theterminal block 22 such that there is a minimal risk of tools or debris being dropped or failing unintentionally into the AC generator during assembly or refurbishing. Also connection of the generator can be altered between series star and parallel star simply by changing over connections above that electrically insulating barrier. Furthermore, the construction of theterminal block 22 whereby it comprises six angle members 52 arranged side by side with upright faces 53 of adjacent angle members 52 abutting one another and adjacent edges of horizontal sides of those angle members 52 abutting one another as well, to form the substantially uninterrupted barrier, leads to theresultant panel 51 being a rigid formation. As a result, any tendency for the busbars 56-68 and 61-69 that are supported by thepanel 51 to be deflected one relative to another by electromagnetic forces to which they may be subjected, especially under fault conditions externally imposed on the alternator by the power transmission or distribution system to which it may be connected, and thus to tend to twist the angle members 52 between which they are supported with the possible consequence of short circuiting as adjacent busbars touch one another, is resisted by the angle members themselves. - Although the
armature windings 23 described above are perfect lap windings, it is preferable to use perfect concentric windings. FIG. 13 shows armature windings which comprise-twelve sets 83.1-83.12 of perfect concentric windings. Each set 83.1-83.12 of perfect concentric windings comprises a single conductor which is bent into four loops, one within another so that the four loops can lie substantially ill the same plane, each loop being generally rectangular. The long sides (conductors 36) of each loop of a set of windings 83.1-83.12 are laid in a respective axially-extending slot 84 (see FIG. 14) formed in the inner cylindrical surface of thestator 24 and extend beyond thestator 24 at either end so that the shorter sides of each loop of the stator windings overhang thestator 24 at the respective end. The fourlong sides 36 of the loops of each set 83.1-83.12 that lead in the clockwise sense, with respect to the other side of that set 83.1-83.12, are laid over the trailinglong sides 36 of the next but one set 83.1-83.12 in the clockwise direction. This is so for each and everyone of the twelve sets 83-1-83.12 and is a characterising feature of “perfect” concentric windings. Each winding set 83.1-83.12 has two output leads 34, one being a neutral lead and the other being a positive output lead. - FIG. 14 shows that each stator slot84 within which one
long side 36 of a loop of a “perfect” concentric winding set 83.1-83.12 is laid upon another, is lined by an insulation 85. Also aNomex shoe 86 is provided between the twoloop side conductors 36 laid one on the other in the slot 84. Anothersuch shoe 87 of insulating material, a Nomex polyester mixture, is laid on the one of thoseconductors 36 that is nearer the mouth of the slot 84. The latter is narrower than the remainder of the slot 84 and anepoxy glass board 88, which is wider than the mouth, closes that mouth so as to retain theshoes conductors 36 within the slot 84. - The right hand end of the
stator 24, as seen in FIG. 1, is known as the “Drive End”. The overhanging ends of the sets of windings 83.1-83.12 at the “Drive End” comprise the closed ends of all the loops of the twelve sets 83.1-83.12 of windings at the ends of those sets 83.1-83.12 remote from the terminal leads 34 and together comprise a circumferentially-extending annular array ofwindings 23. This circumferential array is encased in awide mesh net 89 of lacing cord (as shown in FIG.) and is embraced around its outer surface by anencircling bracing rope 91. The bracingrope 91 comprises an inner core of pre-stressed linear mono-glass filaments within a woven outer sheath formed by braiding and impregnated with a thermosetting resin after assembly to comprise a rigid ring which restrains the winding array against displacement that may otherwise be caused in reaction to electromagnetic forces induced in the overhanging windings at that end of thestator 24 by high fault levels that may occur in a power transmission or distribution system into which the AC generator is installed. The prestressed linear mono-glass filaments encased in the outer sheath of braided polyester fibres is sufficiently flexible prior to impregnation with the insulating resin, for it to be wrapped around the overhanging portions of thewindings 23 so that it closely conforms to the irregular shape of that overhanging portion, it being moulded into a rigid ring body having that form after the resin has set. - The other ends of the loops of each set83.1-83.12, including the
leads 34 of each set 83.1-83.12 similarly overhang from the left hand end of thestator 24, as seen in FIGS. 1 and 5. These again are arranged to form a circumferential array of windings at the left hand end of thestator 24 which is known as the “Non Drive End”. - The circumferential array of
windings 23 at the “Non Drive End” is encased in a wide mesh net of lacing cord and is embraced at its end that is spaced from thestator 24 by a bracingrope 92. The bracingrope 92 is disposed radially inwardly with respect to thecleats 35 because of the presence of the latter. Otherwise it is formed in substantially the same manner as has been described above for the bracingrope 91 at the “Drive End”. - In operation of the AC generator, the
coupling plate 26 is coupled to a fly-wheel of a driving prime mover or engine. For excitation of the AC generator its rotor windings are energised either by a direct current supply which is supplied to those windings via terminals on therotor 25 through brushes and slip rings or, in the case of a brushless AC generator, by a rectified output of a separate small excitor which is usually mounted on the same shaft as therotor 25. The latter has a DC stator winding and a 3-phase or single phase winding on its rotor, the output of which is rectified and fed to the windings on therotor 25. This excitation current, whether it is a separate DC supply or a rectified output of an exciter is a current of lower strength than the output of the AC generator. - The driving prime motor is actuated to rotate the
rotor 25 within thestator 24. The output current is generated in thestator windings 23 by mutual induction in the usual way and is led through theleads 34 to the terminals U, V, W of the terminal block. - The
fan 27 rotates with therotor 25, draws air through thestator 24 from the remote end thereof and discharges that air through thedischarge passages 32 formed by thevolute casing 30. Use of thevolute casing 30 improves the cooling by increasing the volume of air that is drawn through thestator 24 by thefan 27 for discharge through thedischarge passages 32 formed by thevolute casing 30. Furthermore the arrangement of theblades 31 whereby they are oblique to the radial so that they trail the radial, contributes to this arrangement. Moreover, the tapering of the tips of theblades 31 leads to a lower noise output than has been found to be the case where the blades had tips which were substantially parallel to the axis of rotation. - The air that is drawn through the
stator 24 by thefan 27 is also drawn into thestator 24 around and through theleads 34 that are led around the six axially spaced circumferentially extending tracks formed by the circumferential array ofcleats 35, those leads 34 being supported in free space by thecleats 35 with which they cooperate to form a grid structure as has been described above, the interstices of that grid structure serving as ventilation spaces through which that air is drawn. This enhances the ventilation of thoseleads 34 and further improves the cooling of the AC generator. There is some improvement in cooling with perfect lap winding3, so that the rating of the AC generator would be improved, but the conjoint effect of the arrangement of theleads 34 so they extend around the six axially spaced circumferentially extending tracks with the use of perfect concentric windings gives even better cooling of the windings and hence better voltage and current balance in the windings of thestator 24. This leads as a result to an increase in the power density or-rating of the AC generator. The improved cooling that follows from the use of thevolute casing 30 with theblades 31 that are oblique to the radial so that they trail the radial as described, together with that, that follows from the conjoint effect of the arrangement of theleads 34 in six axially spaced circumferentially extending tracks and the use of perfect concentric stator windings, leads to an increase of between 15 and 20% in power density. - The arrangement of the
terminal block 22 results in the physical support for the metal busbars 56-59, 64-69 which conveniently are formed of a tin plated copper, being provided by the insulating material which is considerably more light weight than the conventional welded structure. - FIGS. 15 and 16 show a modification of the AC generator described above with reference to FIGS.1 to 14. Parts of the generator shown in FIGS. 15 and 16 which are similar to corresponding parts of the generator shown in FIGS. 1 to 14 are identified by the same reference characters. The generator shown in FIGS. 15 and 16 has “perfect” concentric windings 83 as have been described above with reference to FIGS. 13 and 14.
- FIG. 15 shows a circumferential array of six
cleats 93 which are mounted on the curved winding portions that comprise the ends of the twelve sets 83.1-83.12 of winding portions that project from the “Non Drive End” of thestator 24. FIG. 16 shows that each of thosecleats 93 is similar to thecleat 35 that has been described above with reference to and as shown in FIG. 8, except that theback portion 39 of thecleat 93 projects axially beyond theprongs 41 at the end thereof remote from thetongue 44 to form ashoulder 94 with theprong 41 that is furthest from thetongue 44. Theshoulders 94 of each of the circumferential array ofcleats 93 provide a seat for asolid ring 95 of copper (shown chain dotted in FIG. 5) which rests thereon whereby thering 95 is supported by the circumferential array ofcleats 93. - The
ring 95 is not a complete circle but extends over about 350°, the spaced ends of the resultant loop being at the top. Each of the neutral leads of thewindings 23 is electrically connected to thering 95 so supported on the annular array ofcleats 93. To ensure a good electrical connection, the end of each such neutral lead is bared by removing the enamel coating to expose copper whereby to provide a good copper-copper contact. Thering 95 is retained upon its seat on eachcleat 93 by thestrap 47 that is passed around it. - Each of the depending portions of the six narrower busbars64-69 shown in FIG. 11 and each of the load output terminals 56-58 has a respective pair of the positive output leads 34 connected to it. Two
neutral connectors neutral connectors solid ring 95.
Claims (31)
1. An alternating current machine comprising a rotor journalled for rotation within a stator comprising stator windings which are gathered together into an annular array at one end of the stator, the stator windings having terminal leads which are guided around respective circumferentially extending paths and coupled to terminal means, there being a plurality of such circumferentially extending paths, each at locations which are spaced axially from other such paths with respect to the stator, the improvement comprising a circumferential array of supporting and guiding means at said one end of the stator for guiding said terminal leads around said paths, the supporting and guiding means being spaced from one another circumferentially such that said terminal leads supported and guided thereby extend between them in free space and ventilation gaps are formed between adjacent terminal leads and supporting and guiding means whereby cooling of the terminal leads is enhanced by air flow through those ventilation gaps.
2. An alternating current machine according to , wherein each stator winding lead is an integral continuation of a conductor which forms a respective stator winding.
claim 1
3. An alternating current machine according to , wherein the stator winding terminal leads that comprise the ends of a respective stator winding are led together for connection to respective terminals of a terminal block from a location which is in the same notional plane that is normal to the axis of rotation of the rotor within the stator.
claim 1
4. An alternating current machine, according to claims 1, wherein each of the supporting and guiding means of said array comprises an axially orientated member which is formed of electrically insulating plastics material and which is operable to guide the discrete bundles side by side along the respective paths between the adjacent members of the array.
5. An alternating current machine according to , wherein each member comprises an elongate back portion with integral prongs which project laterally therefrom so that it has the form of a comb, the prongs projecting outwardly with respect to the axis of the stator and serving as spacers which space juxtaposed ones of the terminal leads apart and react electromagnetic forces which act to urge towards them either of the terminal leads they separate.
claim 4
6. An alternating current machine according to , wherein the prongs are shaped so that the nearer sides of juxtaposed prongs converge towards the ends of the prongs remote from the back portion, the mouths formed between those ends of juxtaposed pairs of the prongs being sized such that a terminal lead can be fitted into the intervening spaces between each juxtaposed pair of prongs with a snap action.
claim 5
7. An alternating current machine according to , wherein each member is provided with means fitted to the ends of its prongs for bracing the leads into it.
claim 5
8. An alternating current machine according to , wherein said means which are operable to brace the leads into each member are part of an elongate flexible rod member which, in addition to functioning to brace the leads into the respective member, also comprises a strap portion which is passed under the back portion of the respective member, remote from the prongs, and under bundles of conductors that comprise portions of the stator windings that have been turned around at said one end of the stator, whereby the respective member is strapped to the stator windings by the strap portion.
claim 7
9. An alternating current machine according to , wherein the rotor is coupled with a fan for conjoint rotation, the fan being within a casing and being operable to cause air flow through the stator from said one end, that air flow being drawn into the stator through the ventilation gaps formed between juxtaposed terminal leads and adjacent supporting and guiding means at said one end of the stator, the casing cooperating with the fan to provide a conduit for discharge air flow from the fan.
claim 1
10. An alternating current machine according to , wherein the conduit is in the form of a volute whereby its area increases progressively in the downstream direction.
claim 9
11. An alternating current machine according to , wherein there are two sets of conduits diametrically opposed one with respect to the other and oriented to discharge in opposite directions.
claim 9
12. An alternating current machine according to claim 10, wherein the fan is a radial flow fan which has blades which project from the hub at an angle which is oblique to the radial whereby those blades trail the radial.
13. An alternating current machine according to , wherein the tip of each blade is angled with respect to the axis of rotation of the fan whereby it diverges from the surrounding casing wall in the direction which is parallel to the axis of rotation and which extends away from said one end of the stator.
claim 10
14. An alternating current machine according to , wherein the fan is bolted onto the rotor so as to be readily replaceable.
claim 10
15. An alternating current machine according to to , wherein said terminal means comprise a structural panel formed of an electrically insulating structural material, busbars which extend through and which are supported by the panel with minimal clearance therearound, the busbars having terminals formed at either end, said terminal leads being connected to the busbar terminals that are on the same side of the panel as are the stator windings, the arrangement being such that the panel substantially closes the surrounds of the busbars around which it is close fitted.
claims 1
14
16. An alternating current machine according to , wherein the structural panel comprises abutting juxtaposed elongate members.
claim 15
17. An alternating current machine according to , wherein each elongate member is an angle member, upstanding portions of the juxtaposed angle members being in face to face abutment with the busbars sandwiched between them and the other edges of the angle members abutting also, each busbar extending through a respective recess formed in one of the abutting faces in the juxtaposed angle members.
claim 16
18. An alternating current machine according to , wherein the busbars comprise three power output busbars and, for each such power output busbar, a respective neutral and a pair of spaced busbars, which are located between the respective power output and neutral busbars from which they are spaced, and linking means operable selectively to connect said pair of spaced busbars together for a series star connection and to connect one busbar of each said pair to the adjacent one of the power output and neutral busbars and to connect the other busbar of each said pair to the other of the power output and neutral busbars for a parallel star connection, said connections by said linking means being made on the side of said structural panel opposite to the ends of the busbars to which said terminal leads are connected.
claim 15
19. An alternating current machine according to claims 1, wherein the neutral terminal leads are connected to a solid ring of a good electrically conducting material which in turn is connected to said terminal means.
20. An alternating current machine according to , in which said terminal means comprise a structural panel formed of an electrically insulating structural material, busbars which extend through and which are supported by the panel with minimal clearance therearound, the busbars having terminals formed at either end, said terminal leads being connected to the busbar terminals that are on the same side of the panel as are the stator windings, the arrangement being such that the panel substantially closes the surrounds of the busbars around which it is close fitted, wherein said ring is connected to a neutral busbar below said panel.
claim 19
21. An alternating current machine according to , wherein said ring is open ended and both of its ends are connected to said neutral busbar by respective connecting means.
claim 19
22. An alternating current machine according to , wherein said ring is supported by said supporting and guiding means.
claim 19
23. An alternating current machine according to , in which each member comprises an elongate back portion with integral prongs which project lateraly therefrom so that it has the form of a comb, the prongs projecting outwardly with respect to the axis of the stator and serving as spacers which space juxtaposed ones of the terminal leads apart and react electromagnetic forces which act to urge them towards either of the terminal leads they separate, wherein said ring in supported in contact with the one of said prongs of each said member that is the furthest from the stator.
claim 22
24. An alternating current machine according to , in which each member is provided with means fitted to the ends of its prongs for bracing the leads into it and said means which are operable to brace the leads into each member are part of an elongate flexible rod member which in addition to functioning to brace the leads into the respective member, also comprises a strap portion which is passed under the back portion of the respective member, remote from the prongs, and under bundles of conductors that comprise portions of the stator windings that have been turned around at said one end of the stator, whereby the respective member is strapped to the stator windings by the strap position, wherein said ring is held so supported in contact with said one prong of each said member by the respective flexible rod member by which that member is strapped to the stator windings.
claim 23
25. A terminal arrangement for leads from stator windings of an alternating current machine, comprising an array of structural members and busbars which extend through and which are supported by the array, the busbars having terminals at either end, wherein the improvement comprises the structural members of the array being formed of an electrically insulating structural material and being in face to face abutment whereby they form a structural panel which presents a substantially uninterrupted surface, each of the busbars which extends through and which is supported by the panel being a close fit within a respective through passage, the through passage being formed by appropriate grooves in abutting faces of the structural members, the arrangement being such that the panel substantially closes the surrounds of the busbars around which it is close fitted.
26. A terminal arrangement according to , wherein each structural member is elongate and is an angle member, upstanding portions of the juxtaposed angle members being in face to face abutment with the busbars therebetween close fitted in such grooves which are formed thereby and the other edges of the angle members abutting also.
claim 25
27. A terminal arrangement according to , wherein the busbars comprise three power output busbars and, for each such power output busbar, a respective neutral and a pair of spaced busbars which are located between the respective power output and neutral busbars from which they are spaced, and linking means operable selectively to connect said pair of spaced busbars together for a series star connection and to connect one busbar of each said pair to the adjacent one of the power output and neutral busbars and to connect the other busbar of each said pair to the other of the power output and neutral busbars for a parallel star connection, said connections by said linking means being made on the side of said structural panel opposite to the ends of the busbars to which stator winding terminal leads are connected.
claim 25
28. An alternating current machine comprising a rotor journalled for rotation within a stator, the stator comprising stator windings which project from one end of the stator for connection to a terminal arrangement, and the rotor being coupled with a radial flow fan for conjoint rotation, the fan being within a casing and being operable to cause air flow through the stator from said one end, the casing cooperating with the fan to provide a conduit for discharge of air flow from the fan, the conduit being in the form of a volute whereby its area increases progressively in the downstream direction, wherein the improvement comprises the fan having blades which project from the hub at an angle which is oblique to the radial.
29. An alternating current machine according to , wherein there are two such conduits diametrically opposed one with respect to the other and oriented to discharge in opposite directions.
claim 28
30. An alternating current machine according to , wherein the tip of each blade is angled with respect to the axis of rotation of the fan whereby it diverges from the surrounding casing wall in the direction which is parallel to the axis of rotation and which extends away from said one end of the stator.
claim 28
31. An alternating current machine according to , wherein the fan is bolted onto the rotor so as to be readily replaceable.
claim 28
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