Rotating electrical machine for vehicles with liquid cooling
AssigneeFerrari S.P.A.
InventorFranco CIMATTI
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Abstract
An embodiment of a rotating electrical machine has: a shaft rotatably mounted to rotate around a central rotation axis; a rotor carried by the shaft; a stator which supports stator windings and is arranged around the rotor to enclose the rotor therein; a cylindrical casing which encloses the stator therein; and a cooling circuit which is intended for the circulation of a cooling fluid, is obtained at the casing, has a single common inlet opening for the cooling fluid axially arranged in the centre of a lateral wall of the casing, and two helicoidal paths, each of which is a mirror-image twin of the other one, centrally originates from the common inlet opening and extends from the centre of the casing towards a corresponding end of the casing.
Claims10
A rotating electrical machine comprising:
- a shaft, which is mounted so as to rotate around a central rotation axis;
- a rotor, which is supported by the shaft;
- a stator, which supports stator windings and is arranged around the rotor so as to surround the rotor;
- a cylindrical casing, which contains in its inside the stator;
- a cooling circuit, which is intended for the circulation of a cooling fluid and is obtained at the casing, has a single common inlet opening for letting the cooling fluid in, which is axially arranged at the center of a lateral wall of the casing, and has two helicoidal paths, each of which is a mirror-image twin of the other one, centrally originates from the common inlet opening and extends from the center of the casing towards a corresponding end of the casing;
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- two annular distribution chambers, each of which has a circular shape, is arranged at an end of the casing and forms the end of a corresponding helicoidal path;
- the electrical machine is characterized in that each distribution chamber has a plurality of outlet through holes, which are arranged in a radial fashion and open through an inner wall of the distribution chamber in order to lead to the central rotation axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.