# US 11,121,608 B2 · Discharging device for discharging electrical interference > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,121,608 B2 - Document ID: US11121608B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/318,850 - Filed: 2017-07-21 - Published: 2019-06-27 - Granted: 2021-09-14 - Earliest claimed: 2016-07-26 - Assignees: Schunk Carbon Technology GmbH - Applicants: Schunk Carbon Technology GmbH - Inventors: Florian Huber; Markus Weber - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11121608B2 ## CPC - H02K 11/40: Structural association with grounding devices - H01R 39/20: characterised by the material thereof - H01R 39/381: {characterised by the application of pressure to brush} - H02K 5/225: {Terminal boxes or connection arrangements (specially adapted for submersible motors H02K5/132)} - Y02T 10/64: Electric machine technologies in electromobility - H02K: DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power {H03K3/53}) - H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION ## Abstract A discharging device for discharging electrical interference, in particular currents, from a rotor part of a machine, said rotor part in particular being a shaft, into a stator part (17) of the machine, the discharging device having a contact device (11) comprising a contact element (13) which is accommodated in an axially displaceable manner in a guide and which is acted on by a contact force device (15) for generating a shaft contact force (FW) in order to establish electrical contact between a shaft contact surface (19) of the contact element (13) and a rotor contact surface (20) of the shaft (18), wherein the guide has a stator contact surface (25) for forming an electrical connection with the stator part (17) and the discharging device has a guide contact force device (21) for generating a guide contact force (FF) between a guide contact surface (24) of the contact element (13) and the stator contact surface (25) electrically connected to the stator part (17). ## Claims ### Claim 1 A discharging device (10, 26, 40, 60, 70, 80, 90) for discharging electrical interference from a rotor part of a machine a stator part (17) of the machine, the discharging device having a contact device (11, 41, 91) comprising a contact element (13, 27, 43) accommodated in an axially displaceable manner in a guide and acted on by a contact force device (15, 28, 44) for generating a shaft contact force FW in order to establish electrical contact between a shaft contact surface (19, 29, 47, 92) of the contact element (13, 27, 43) and a rotor contact surface (20, 30, 48, 61, 71, 81) of the shaft (18), characterized in that the guide has a stator contact surface (25, 36, 50) for forming an electrical connection with the stator part (17) and the discharging device has a guide contact force device (21) for generating a guide contact force FF between a guide contact surface (24, 35, 49) of the contact element (13, 27, 43) and the stator contact surface (25, 36, 50) electrically connected to the stator part (17); wherein the contact force device (15, 28, 44) has a pre-loading device disposed on a base (16, 32, 45) of the guide, the contact device (41) is disposed at a contact angle β to a rotor radial line R of the shaft (18) and the shaft contact surface (47) of the contact element (43) is inclined at contact angle β relative to a normal plane N, the normal plane N intersects the longitudinal axis L of the contact element (43), in such a manner that the shaft contact surface (47) is disposed in a common contact plane E with the rotor contact surface (48), the contact force device (44) forming both the shaft contact force device and the guide contact force device in such a manner that one force component of the contact force device (44) acts on the rotor contact surface (48) of the shaft (18) as the shaft contact force FW and one force component acts on the stator contact surface (50) of the guide as the guide contact force FF, and the contact device (41) is disposed at an offset parallel to the longitudinal axis LW of the shaft (18) and radial to a shaft collar or shaft end, a rotor contact surface (82) inclined at a contact angle β to a rotor radial line R being formed at the shaft collar or at the shaft end, the shaft contact surface (47) of the contact element (43) being inclined at contact angle β relative to a normal plane N, which intersects the longitudinal axis L of the contact element (43), in such a manner that the shaft contact surface (47) is disposed in a common contact plane E with the rotor contact surface (48), the contact force device (44) forming both the shaft contact force device and the guide contact force device in such a manner that one force component of the contact force device acts on the rotor contact surface (82) of the shaft (18) as the shaft contact force FW and one force component acts on the stator contact surface (50) of the guide as the guide contact force FF. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The discharging device according to claim 1, characterized in that the guide is a contact sleeve (12, 42) having two diametrically opposed wall portions, a first wall portion (22) being provided with the guide contact force device and the opposite second wall portion being a stator contact surface (25). ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The discharging device according to claim 2, characterized in that the first wall portion (22) is provided with a spring tab (23) which is in elastic contact with the contact element (13) so as to form the guide contact force device (21). ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The discharging device according to claim 1, characterized in that the guide is a contact sleeve (42) and the contact force device (44) acts on the contact element (43) with a pre-loading force F oriented at an angle β to the longitudinal axis L of the contact element (43), the contact force device (44) forming both the shaft contact force device and the guide contact force device in such a manner that one force component of the contact force device acts on the rotor contact surface (48, 61, 71, 81) as the shaft contact force FW and one force component acts on the stator contact surface (50) as the guide contact force FF. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The discharging device according to claim 4, characterized in that the contact force device (28) has a coil spring (31) which has one spring end disposed on a base (32) of the guide and the other spring end disposed on the contact element (27), at least one spring end being radially offset from a center axis L of the guide (33) which is a contact sleeve (33). ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The discharging device according to claim 1, characterized in that the contact device (41) is disposed on a rotor radial line R of the shaft (18), the shaft contact surface (47) of the contact element (43) is inclined at a contact angle β relative to a normal plane N, the normal plane (N) intersects the longitudinal axis L of the contact element (43), and the rotor contact surface is a conical surface having a cone angle which corresponds to the contact angle in such a manner that the shaft contact surface (47) is disposed in a common contact plane E with the rotor contact surface (61) in such a manner that the contact force device forms both the shaft contact force device and the guide contact force device and one force component of the contact force device (44) acts on the rotor contact surface (61, 71) of the shaft as the shaft contact force FW and one force component acts on the stator contact surface (50) of the guide as the guide contact force FF. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The discharging device according to claim 6, characterized in that the rotor contact surface (61) is formed by an outer surface of a contact hub (62) disposed on the shaft (18). ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The discharging device according to claim 6, characterized in that the rotor contact surface (71) is formed by a cone-shaped shaft portion (72). ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The discharging device according to claim 1, characterized in that the contact device (41) is disposed on a shaft collar or a shaft end at a contact angle β to the longitudinal axis LW of the shaft, a rotor contact surface (82) inclined at contact angle β+γ to a rotor radial line R being formed at the shaft collar or at the shaft end in such a manner that the shaft contact surface (47) is disposed in a common contact plane E with the rotor contact surface (81) and is inclined at a contact angle to a normal plane of the contact element, the contact force device (44) forming both the shaft contact force device and the guide contact force device in such a manner that one force component of the contact force device acts on the rotor contact surface (82) of the shaft (18) as the shaft contact force FW and one force component acts on the stator contact surface (50) of the guide as the guide contact force FF. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The discharging device according to claim 1, characterized in that the contact element (13, 27, 43) is provided with an electrically conductive coating on at least its second guide contact surface (24, 35, 49). ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The discharging device according to claim 1, characterized in that the coating is provided with another capacitive metallic or metalloid coating. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The discharging device according to claim 1, characterized in that a cable connection is provided between the contact element and the guide. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The discharging device according to claim 10, characterized in that a cable connection is provided between the conductive coating of the contact element and the guide. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The discharging device according to claim 1, characterized in that the contact element (13, 27, 43) has ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic substances aside from iron, cobalt or nickel from the group comprising FeO, Fe2O3, Fe3O4, nickel oxides, NiO, manganese oxides from the group comprising MnO, MnO2, Mn2O3, Mn3O4, chromium oxides from the group comprising CrO2, Cr2O3, copper oxides from the group comprising CuO, Cu2O, or zinc oxides, both separately or in combination with each other, or compounds from the class of spinels, which are of the type AB2X4, with A (divalent cations) and B (trivalent cations) representing metal cations having a combined oxidation number of 8 and X being a placeholder for oxygen atoms or sulfur atoms. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The discharging device according to claim 14, characterized in that the ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic substances are distributed homogenously. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The discharging device according to claim 1, characterized in that the ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic substances have an orientation or are disposed in multiple layers. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The discharging device according to claim 16, characterized in that the distribution of the ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic substances in the contact element (13, 27, 43) shows a gradient. ### Claim 18 A discharging device (10, 26, 40, 60, 70, 80, 90) for discharging electrical interference from a rotor part of a machine-into a stator part (17) of the machine, the discharging device having a contact device (11, 41, 91) comprising a contact element (13, 27, 43) accommodated in an axially displaceable manner in a guide and which is acted on by a contact force device (15, 28, 44) for generating a shaft contact force FW in order to establish electrical contact between a shaft contact surface (19, 29, 47, 92) of the contact element (13, 27, 43) and a rotor contact surface (20, 30, 48, 61, 71, 81) of the shaft (18), characterized in that the guide has a stator contact surface (25, 36, 50) for forming an electrical connection with the stator part (17) and the discharging device has a guide contact force device (21) for generating a guide contact force FF between a guide contact surface (24, 35, 49) of the contact element (13, 27, 43) and the stator contact surface (25, 36, 50) electrically connected to the stator part (17); wherein the contact force device (15, 28, 44) has a pre-loading device disposed on a base (16, 32, 45) of the guide, the contact device (41) is disposed at a contact angle β to a rotor radial line R of the shaft (18) and the shaft contact surface (47) of the contact element (43) is inclined at contact angle β relative to a normal plane N, the normal plane N intersects the longitudinal axis L of the contact element (43), in such a manner that the shaft contact surface (47) is disposed in a common contact plane E with the rotor contact surface (48), the contact force device (44) forming both the shaft contact force device and the guide contact force device in such a manner that one force component of the contact force device (44) acts on the rotor contact surface (48) of the shaft (18) as the shaft contact force FW and one force component acts on the stator contact surface (50) of the guide as the guide contact force FF, and the contact device (41) is disposed on a shaft collar or shaft end at a contact angle β to the longitudinal axis LW of the shaft, a rotor contact surface (82) inclined at contact angle β+γ to a rotor radial line R being formed at the shaft collar or at the shaft end in such a manner that the shaft contact surface (47) is disposed in a common contact plane E with the rotor contact surface (81) and is inclined at a contact angle to a normal plane of the contact element, the contact force device (44) forming both the shaft contact force device and the guide contact force device in such a manner that one force component of the contact force device acts on the rotor contact surface (82) of the shaft (18) as the shaft contact force FW and one force component acts on the stator contact surface (50) of the guide as the guide contact force FF.