US 4,360,749 AGranted

Automotive alternator construction

AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH

InventorsKarl-Heinz Neumann, Walter Hagenlocher, Karl Kleebaur, Klaus H. Christ

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Abstract

To facilitate assembly of an automotive alternator, the alternator housing (11) is separated into two axially split half-shells (11a, 11b), the dividing line (11c) preferably passing through the axis of the shaft (18) of the alternator. The alternator assembly is made by providing a subassembly including the shaft, electromagnetic rotor structure, bearings, and a disk element in which rectifier diodes are seated and which can also support holders in engagement with the slip rings and the voltage regulator. The stator is slipped around the subassembly, a fan wheel and pulley can be attached to the subassembly which is then placed into one half-shell. The bearings and the concentric elements are positioned in alignment by seats formed in the half-shell, and the axial alignment can be accurately checked, and if the alignment is found proper, the second half-shell is assembled thereover.

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Dependent claims

Automotive alternator adapted for attachment to an automotive engine

a housing (11);
means (12, 13) for securing the housing, and hence the alternator, to the engine;
a stator (19, 21) seated in the housing;
a rotor including a rotor shaft (18), an electromagnetic structure (26, 27, 28, 29), a drive pulley (24) and a sheet metal ventilating or fan wheel (23) secured to the shaft and rotatable concentrically within the stator;
bearings (16, 17) seated in the housing and journaling the rotor,
wherein
the housing comprises a pair of essentially half-cylindrical half-shells (11a, 11b) which are separated along a separation plane which is parallel to the axis of the shaft (18);
the separating plane passes through the axis of rotation of the shaft (18),
means (35, 36, 42, 43a, 43b) formed inside of said half shells, forming the housing for locating said stator and said bearings in predetermined position in the respective half-shells;
the securing means comprises at least one holding bracket attached to one of the half shells;
and wherein
the rotor shaft (18), bearings (16, 17), the drive pulley, the sheet-metal ventilating fan wheel and the electromagnetic structure (26-29) form a single subassembly fitted, with the stator surrounding the subassembly, within a half-shell for subsequent assembly of the other half-shell thereover.

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