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US 4,064,410 AGranted
Squirrel cage rotor and method of making same
AssigneeService First, Inc.
InventorThomas Allen Roach
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AssigneeService First, Inc.
InventorThomas Allen Roach
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A rotor for use in a dynamo-electric machine comprising a shaft, a laminated magnetic core carried by the shaft, a plurality of arcuately spaced apart rotor bars carried by the core and having end portions protruding beyond the end laminations at opposite ends of the core, and a pair of end rings disposed at opposite ends of the core and joined to the protruding end portions of the rotor bars. The axially facing inner end surface of each end ring has a series of arcuately spaced radially extending channels formed therein with intervening arcuately spaced radially extending ribs defined therebetween, with the channels receiving the protruding end portions of the rotor bars therein, and with the ribs bearing tightly against the end laminations at opposite ends of the laminated core to maintain the laminated core in tightly compressed condition.
In a rotor for use in a dynamoelectric machine and comprising a shaft, a generally cylindrical lamintated magnetic core carried by said shaft, a plurality of arcuately spaced apart rotor bars carried by said core and having end portions protruding beyond the end laminations at opposite ends of said core, and a pair of end rings disposed at opposite ends of said core and connected to the protruding end portions of said rotor bars, with each end ring having an axially facing inner end portion facing said core, the improvement wherein the inner end portion of each of said end rings includes a series of arcuately spaced radially extending ribs therearound with intervening radially extending channels being defined therebetween, the protruding end portions of said rotor bars being located in said channels and said series of ribs bearing tightly against the end laminations at opposite ends of said laminated core to maintain the laminated core to tightly compressed condition, and means in said channels securing the rotor bars to the end rings.
In a rotor for use in a dynamoelectric machine and comprising a shaft, a generally cylindrical laminated magnetic core mounted coaxially on said shaft, said core having a plurality of arcuately spaced longitudinal passageways therethrough for accommodating rotor bars, a plurality of rotor bars positioned in said passageways and having end portions protruding beyond the end laminations at opposite ends of said core, and a pair of hollow cylindrical end rings mounted coaxially with said shaft at opposite ends of said core and connected to the protruding end portions of said rotor bars, with each end ring having an axially facing inner end portion facing said core, the improvement wherein the inner end portion of each end ring includes a series of arcuately spaced ribs therearound extending radially across the inner end portion, with intervening arcuately spaced radially extending channels being defined between successive arcuately spaced radially extending ribs, the protruding end portions of said rotor bars being located in said channels and said ribs having their end surfaces lying in a common plane and bearing tightly against the end laminations of said core at arcuately spaced locations between the rotor bars to maintain the laminations of said core immobilized and in tightly compressed condition, and means in said channels securing the rotor bars to the end rings.
In a rotor for use in an electric motor and comprising a shaft, a generally cylindrical magnetic core mounted coaxially on said shaft, said core being comprised of a multiplicity of stacked laminations with each lamination having a plurality of arcuately spaced perforations therein near the outer radial periphery thereof and with corresponding perforations in adjacent laminations being aligned to define a plurality of circumferentially spaced longitudinal passageways extending the length of said core near the outer periphery thereof for accommodating rotor bars, a plurality of rotor bars positioned in said passageways and having end portions protruding beyond the end laminations at opposite ends of said core, and a pair of hollow cylindrical end rings mounted coaxially with said shaft at opposite ends of said core and being connected to the protruding end portions of said rotor bars at opposite ends of said core, each end ring having an axially facing outer end portion with a plurality of fan blades formed thereon and an axially facing inner end portion facing said core, the improvement wherein the inner end portion of each end ring includes a series of arcuately spaced ribs therearound extending radially across the axially facing inner end portion to the outer circumferential periphery of the end ring with intervening arcuately spaced radially extending channels of predetermined substantially uniform axial depth being defined between successive arcuately spaced ribs, the protruding end portions of said rotor bars extending axially into said channels for substantially their entire depth and said ribs having their axially facing end surfaces bearing tightly against the end laminations of said core at arcuately spaced locations between said perforations therein to maintain the laminations of said core immobilized and in tightly compressed condition, and welds securing the protruding end portions of said rotor bars to said end ring.
An end ring for use in a dynamoelectric machine rotor of the type having a laminated magnetic core and a plurality of circumferentially spaced rotor bars extending through the core and with opposite end portions of the rotor bars joined to respective end rings, said end ring being constructed to facilitate obtaining a strong and reliable connection between the rotor bars and the end ring and to maintain the laminations of the core in tightly compressed condition, and said end ring comprising a generally cylindrical body having a medially located bore extending axially therethrough, said cylindrical body including an integral annular shoulder on one axial end portion therof located adjacent the medial bore and including a series of integral ribs extending radially from said annular shoulder across said axial end portion of the body and to the outer periphery of the body, said ribs being arranged in arcuately spaced relation from one another with intervening arcuately spaced radially extending channels being defined between adjacent ribs, and said annular shoulder and said radially extending ribs being substantially flat and lying in a common plane substantially perpendicular to the axis of said cylindrical body.
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