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US 10,833,547 B2Granted
Liquid cooled pole wedge
AssigneeHamilton Sundstrand Corporation
InventorsDaniel Kuehn, Stephen Michael Bortoli
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Abstract
A wedge for use between poles of a generator for supporting windings of the poles includes a plurality of outer walls. The wedge also includes at least one fluid orifice extending through at least one of the plurality of outer walls and configured to receive a fluid from a shaft of the generator and to allow the fluid to flow through the at least one of the plurality of outer walls to reduce a temperature of the windings.
Claims16
A wedge for use between poles of a generator for supporting windings of the poles, comprising:
- a plurality of outer walls;
- and
- at least one fluid orifice defined by at least one of the plurality of outer walls, extending through at least one of the plurality of outer walls, and configured to receive a fluid from a shaft of the generator and to allow the fluid to flow through the at least one of the plurality of outer walls to reduce a temperature of the windings.
A generator, comprising:
- a shaft configured to rotate about an axis;
- a core coupled to the shaft and including at least two poles configured to rotate about the axis in response to rotation of the shaft;
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- a wedge configured to be positioned between two of the at least two poles of the core and including a fluid orifice defined by the wedge, extending through at least a portion of the wedge, and configured to allow a fluid to flow through at least the portion of the wedge to reduce a temperature of the windings.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.