# US 12,009,725 B2 · Drive having an electric motor, a converter, and an intermediate part arranged between the electric motor and the converter > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,009,725 B2 - Document ID: US12009725B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/628,095 - Filed: 2020-06-23 - Published: 2022-08-18 - Granted: 2024-06-11 - Earliest claimed: 2019-07-18 - Assignees: Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG - Applicants: Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG - Inventors: Johannes Brödner; Tobias Stark - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12009725B2 ## CPC - H02K 5/225: {Terminal boxes or connection arrangements (specially adapted for submersible motors H02K5/132)} - H02K 11/28: Manual switches - H02K 5/02: Casings or enclosures characterised by the material thereof - H02K 5/18: with ribs or fins for improving heat transfer - H02K 5/22: Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups H02K5/06-H02K5/20, e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes - H02K 11/33: Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics (H02K11/38 takes precedence) - H02K: DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power {H03K3/53}) ## Abstract A drive includes an electric motor, a converter, and an intermediate part arranged between the electric motor and the converter. A bottom part is connected to the intermediate part in a thermally conductive manner, a top part set apart from the intermediate part is connected to the bottom part in a thermally conductive manner, and the top part has cooling fins. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A drive, comprising: an electric motor; a converter; and an intermediate part arranged between the electric motor and the converter; wherein a bottom part is connected to the intermediate part in a thermally conductive manner, a top part set apart from the intermediate part is connected to the bottom part in a thermally conductive manner, and the top part having cooling fins; and wherein the intermediate part includes uninterrupted threaded bores adapted to receive screw parts that press the bottom part toward the intermediate part. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The drive according to claim 1, wherein the electric motor is set apart from the converter and the intermediate part is connected to the electric motor and to the converter. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The drive according to claim 2, wherein the intermediate part is connected to a stator housing of the electric motor and to a housing of the converter. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The drive according to claim 1, wherein the uninterrupted threaded bores pass through a wall of the intermediate part, broadened regions of the screw parts press the bottom part toward the intermediate part, and the uninterrupted threaded bores are covered by the bottom part and with the top part. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The drive according to claim 4, wherein at least one of the screw parts includes an uninterrupted hole that passes centrally through the screw part adapted for feedthrough of a cable from an interior space of the bottom part to an interior space surrounded by the intermediate part. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The drive according to claim 5, wherein the uninterrupted hole passes centrally through the screw part in a direction of a bore axis of the uninterrupted threaded bore. ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The drive according to claim 4, wherein each screw part projects through a respective recess of the bottom part, the recess including two circular holes that overlap each other. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The drive according to claim 7, wherein the recess passes through a wall of the bottom part, and the recess includes two circular holes that overlap each other so that in a first installation position of the bottom part on the intermediate part, the screw part projects through a first one of the two overlapping holes, and in a second installation position of the bottom part on the intermediate part, the screw part projects through a second one of the two overlapping holes. ### Claim 9 (depends on 4) The drive according to claim 4, wherein the wall of the intermediate part includes uninterrupted threaded bores on a side facing the bottom part and on an opposite side, in mirror symmetry with a plane that includes an axis of rotation of a rotor, which: (a) is aligned parallel to a plane including a flat contact region between a bead arranged on the bottom part the intermediate part; (b) is perpendicular to a plane that is perpendicular to the plane including the flat contact region between the bead and the intermediate part and perpendicular to a plane including a flat contact region between the top part and the bottom part; and/or (c) is perpendicular to a plane that is perpendicular to the plane including the flat contact region between the bead and the intermediate part and perpendicular to the plane including a seal interposed between the bottom part and top part. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The drive according to claim 9, wherein the bottom part is connectable to the intermediate part in a first installation position and on the opposite side in a second installation position. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The drive according to claim 1, wherein a bead is arranged on the bottom part. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The drive according to claim 1, wherein the bottom part is set apart from the converter, the bottom part is set apart from the electric motor, the top part is set apart from the converter, and the top part is set apart from the electric motor. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The drive according to claim 1, wherein a contact region between the bottom part and the top part and/or a contact region between the bottom part and a region that projects at the top part has a flat configuration, and a normal of a plane including the contact region has an angle of between 20° to 70° with respect to a bore axis of a respective threaded bore. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The drive according to claim 13, wherein the bottom part is arranged as a cast part by two die parts that are pulled away from each other in a drawing direction aligned parallel to the normal of the plane including the contact region. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The drive according to claim 14, wherein a first one of the two die parts demolds a first region of a recess that includes two circular overlapping holes, and a second one of the two die parts demolds a second region of the recess that includes the two circular overlapping holes. ### Claim 16 A drive, comprising: an electric motor; a converter; and an intermediate part arranged between the electric motor and the converter; wherein a bottom part is connected to the intermediate part in a thermally conductive manner, a top part set apart from the intermediate part is connected to the bottom part in a thermally conductive manner, and the top part having cooling fins; wherein a bead is arranged on the bottom part; and wherein the bead touches the intermediate part and/or surrounds outlet openings of threaded bores directed toward the bottom part. ### Claim 17 A drive, comprising: an electric motor; a converter; and an intermediate part arranged between the electric motor and the converter; wherein a bottom part is connected to the intermediate part in a thermally conductive manner, a top part set apart from the intermediate part is connected to the bottom part in a thermally conductive manner, and the top part having cooling fins; and wherein a seal and/or a flat seal is arranged between the intermediate part and the bottom part, the seal being positioned radially outside a bead arranged on the bottom part in relation to a bore axis of at least one uninterrupted threaded bore arranged in the intermediate part adapted to receive screw parts that press the bottom part toward the intermediate part and/or circumferentially around the bead. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The drive according to claim 17, wherein an elastic deformation of the seal and/or the flat seal is limited by the bead resting against the intermediate part. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The drive according to claim 17, wherein a further seal is arranged between the top part and the bottom part, the seal being radially surrounded by a region projecting at the top part, the projecting region resting directly against and touching the bottom part, the top part being connected to the bottom part with the aid of connection screws so that the projecting region of the top part is pressed against the bottom part. ### Claim 20 A drive, comprising: an electric motor; a converter; and an intermediate part arranged between the electric motor and the converter; wherein a bottom part is connected to the intermediate part in a thermally conductive manner, a top part set apart from the intermediate part is connected to the bottom part in a thermally conductive manner, and the top part having cooling fins; and wherein a brake resistor is accommodated in the intermediate part and connected to the intermediate part in a thermally conductive manner. ### Claim 21 (depends on 1) The drive according to claim 1, wherein the brake resistor is situated on an inner side of a particular region of a wall of the intermediate part and connected in a thermally conductive manner to the intermediate part at whose outer side a bead is located, for a thermally conductive connection of the bottom part to the intermediate part. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The drive according to claim 21, wherein threaded bores adapted to accommodate screw parts are arranged inside the region. ### Claim 23 A drive, comprising: an electric motor; a converter; and an intermediate part arranged between the electric motor and the converter; wherein a bottom part is connected to the intermediate part in a thermally conductive manner, a top part set apart from the intermediate part is connected to the bottom part in a thermally conductive manner, and the top part having cooling fins; and wherein screw parts, the intermediate part, the bottom part, and the top part are formed of metal, such that a first heat conduction path leads from a brake resistor via the intermediate part and the screw parts to the bottom part and to the top part, and a second heat conduction path leads from the brake resistor via the intermediate part to a bead of the bottom part and then from the bottom part to the top part.