Transmission and generator with intermediate shaft
AssigneesZF Friedrichshafen AG, Zf Wind Power Antwerpen N.V.
InventorsWarren Smook, Burkhard Lips, Sven Moers
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Abstract
An arrangement, including a gearbox, a generator, an intermediate shaft configured as a hollow shaft which is mounted at least partially in a housing of the gearbox, wherein a rotor of the generator is non-rotatably connected to the intermediate shaft and is supported by the intermediate shaft, and an intermediate piece arranged at least partially in the intermediate shaft. An output shaft of the gearbox is non-rotatably and detachably connected to the intermediate piece. The intermediate piece is non-rotatably and detachably connected to the intermediate shaft.
Claims14
An arrangement, comprising:
- a gearbox;
- a generator;
- an intermediate shaft configured as a hollow shaft which is mounted at least partially in a housing of the gearbox, wherein a rotor of the generator is non-rotatably connected to the intermediate shaft and is supported by the intermediate shaft;
- and
- an intermediate piece arranged at least partially in the intermediate shaft,
- wherein an output shaft of the gearbox is non-rotatably and detachably connected to the intermediate piece, and
- wherein the intermediate piece is non-rotatably and detachably connected to the intermediate shaft.
An arrangement, comprising:
- a gearbox;
- a generator;
- an intermediate shaft configured as a hollow shaft which is mounted at least partially in a housing of the gearbox, wherein a rotor of the generator is non-rotatably connected to the intermediate shaft and is supported by the intermediate shaft;
- and
- an intermediate piece arranged at least partially in the intermediate shaft,
- wherein an output shaft of the gearbox is non-rotatably and detachably connected to the intermediate piece,
- wherein the intermediate piece is non-rotatably and detachably connected to the intermediate shaft, and
- wherein the rotor is screwed to the intermediate shaft.
An arrangement, comprising:
- a gearbox;
- a generator;
- an intermediate shaft configured as a hollow shaft which is mounted at least partially in a housing of the gearbox, wherein a rotor of the generator is non-rotatably connected to the intermediate shaft and is supported by the intermediate shaft;
- and
- an intermediate piece arranged at least partially in the intermediate shaft,
- wherein an output shaft of the gearbox is non-rotatably and detachably connected to the intermediate piece,
- wherein the intermediate piece is non-rotatably and detachably connected to the intermediate shaft, and
- wherein the intermediate piece is screwed to the output shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.