High temperature super-conducting rotor coil support with split coil housing and assembly method
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsYu Wang, Robert John Nygard, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, James Pellegrino Alexander
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Abstract
A rotor is disclosed for a synchronous machine comprising: a rotor core; a super-conducting coil winding extending around at least a portion of the rotor, said coil winding having a side section adjacent a side of the rotor core; at least one tension rod extending through a conduit in said rotor core; and a housing attached to the tension rod and connected to the side section of the coil winding, wherein the housing comprises a pair of side panels.
Claims16
In a synchronous machine, a rotor comprising:
- a rotor core;
- a super-conducting coil winding extending around at least a portion of the rotor, said coil winding having a side section adjacent a side of the rotor core;
- at least one tension rod extending through a conduit in said rotor core;
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- a housing attached to the tension rod and connected to the side section of the coil winding, wherein the housing comprises a pair of side panels.
A method for supporting a super-conducting coil winding in the rotor core of a synchronous machine comprising the steps of:
- a. extending a tension rod through a conduit in said rotor core;
- b. positioning the coil winding around the rotor core such that the tension rod spans between side sections of the coil winding;
- c. assembling a pair of side panels of at least one housing around a side section of the coil winding;
- d. securing side panels together, and
- e. attaching the housing to a first end of the tension rod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.