The invention covered by this application is related generally to magneto electric pumps, in particular, to pumps for liquid cooling, and may be used in the manufacture of liquid pumps for various purposes, e.g. liquid cooling of electronic components, car board pumps, fuel pumps etc.
During normal operation many electronic components generate significant amounts of heat. If this heat is not continuously removed, the component may overheat resulting in damage and/or reduction in operating performance. In order to avoid such problems cooling devices are often used in conjunction with these components.
One such cooling device is a fan assisted heat sink. In such a device a heat sink is formed from a material, such as aluminum, which readily conducts heat. The heat sink is usually placed on top of and in physical contact with the component. At some point, however, the amount of heat energy to be dissipated by air coolers exceeds their ability and liquid cooling would apply.
At this point, a liquid cooled heat sink is utilized or a combination of the fan assisted heat sink and the liquid cooled heat sink (see U.S. Pat. No. 6,263,957). A liquid can absorb large amounts of heat energy at low temperature gradients. To produce this type of heat sink for the new generation PC the cooling device must be relatively small. The pump has a separate electrical motor drive in the above mentioned patent, and the sizes of this device are relatively large.
It is known from another prior art (see U.S. Pat. No. 5,007,806), the liquid pump combines the electric motor and pump in a single unit. The sizes of this unit are relative large for use in a liquid cooled heat sink. Also, it is very important to have very reliable motorized pump that would realize the sealless design. In addition, many of existing magnetic driven sealless pumps have slippage capabilities.
It would be desirable to provide a combination of pump/motor for cooling apparatus that would overcome these disadvantages associated with well known devices.
The objectives of the present invention are to realize an electric integrated combination motor-pump having relatively small dimensions, higher reliability, sealless design and exclude slippages.
In order to achieve these objectives, according to the present invention, an integrated motorized pump, comprises: an impeller that is mounted on an axle and has at least one impeller disk and blades attached to said at least one impeller disk, at least one magnetic drive electro magnetically coupled with an electric motor, and a casing with a flowing space and inlet and outlet channels, wherein: said impeller is placed inside said flowing space and along with said flowing space, inlet and outlet channels forms the pump flowing part; said impeller has circumferential arrayed magnetic means magnetized in the direction parallel to the axle; the magnetic drive comprises at least one stator and at least one magnetized disk, and said stator comprises circumferential arrayed coil windings, and said magnetized disk is mounted on said axle and has a circumferential array of radially extending magnetized poles and is mounted perpendicularly to the axle, the magnetized poles of said magnetized disk is spaced axially from the magnetic means of said impeller to form a gap, and at least part of said magnetized poles of said magnetized disk are magnetically opposite to the magnetic means of the impeller, such that the N flux lines of the magnetized poles of said magnetized disk extends to S poles of the magnetic means of the impeller in the shortest axial flux dimension across said gap; the electric motor comprises said impeller as a rotor and at least one stator plate; the stator plate is covered with a liquid tight coating and has circumferential arrayed coils etched on circuit board metal layers and said coils are at least partially positioned within said gap between said magnetized disk and said magnetic means, and the number of said coils is divisible in respect to the number of said magnetic means and said magnetized poles; the casing is rigidly secured with the axle and the stator plate.
The stator plate of said electric motor may serve as the stator of the magnetic drive.
Further the impeller is a drum type impeller, said flowing space comprises at least one internal channel located inside an array of said blades, the internal channel, the inlet and outlet channels are spaced at a plane perpendicular to the axle, so as liquid flows through the inlet channel, the blades of the impeller, the internal channel, the blades of impeller again and the outlet channel in a series way so that said integrated motorized pump is a cross flow type pump. This cross flow type pump with said internal channel realizes a pump with high pressure at relative low flow rate.
According to second embodiment the impeller may be a radial type impeller, the axle is made like a blind hollow cylinder, said blind hollow cylinder serves as an inlet channel and comprises exit ports through a lateral surface of the blind hollow cylinder, so as liquid flows through the inlet channel, the blind hollow cylinder, the exit ports, the blades of said impeller and the outlet channel in a series way. This integrated motorized pump is a centrifugal type pump.
There is third embodiment when the impeller is a radial type impeller with the blades attached to end surface of the impeller disk; the impeller, the inlet and outlet channels are spaced at a plane perpendicular to said axle, so as liquid flows through the inlet channel, circumferentially with said impeller and through the outlet channel in a series way. This integrated motorized pump is a peripheral type pump according to this embodiment.
The axle may be hermetically secured with the casing and the stator plates so said pump flowing part becomes sealless.
The magnetic means may be at least part of said impeller disk, at least part of said blades or at least part of every said blades.
The coil windings and coils are plated with ferromagnetic coating material and the ferromagnetic coating material is nickel.
The coil windings are etched on the circuit board metal layers and these metal layers are copper layers.
The stator and stator plates further comprises a controlling device of a type H-bridge drive, and a single layer of coil windings located on each side of the circuit board, where each said layer comprises several pairs of coil windings and each pair is made as a spiral that extends from the center of a start coil winding to a center of an end coil winding with the same turn direction of the spiral in relation to each coils center; said layers of coil windings are the same in transparent view and shifted angularly in such a way that the center of the start coil windings from one side of the board are electrically connected through the circuit board by internal via's, which are copper plated holes, with the center of the end coil windings on the other side of the board; the circuit of said one layer of coil windings is interrupted (broken) for providing power leads to the said controlling device.
According to variant of design the magnetic drive comprises two magnetized disks and one stator located between said magnetized disks, and wherein each magnetized disk is mounted on the axle and has a circumferential array of radially extending magnetized poles and is mounted perpendicularly to the axle. The magnetized poles of one magnetized disk is spaced axially from the magnetized poles of other magnetized disk to form a gap. The magnetized poles of one magnetized disk are magnetically opposite to the magnetized poles of other magnetized disk, such that the flux lines of the magnetized N poles of one magnetized disk extends to S poles of other magnetized disk in the shortest axial flux dimension across said gap.
Further, the integrated motorized pump may comprise two magnetic drives and the electric motor comprise two stator plates and the impeller placed between said two stator plates. Each of said two magnetic drives located outside on each side of the electric motor on the axle. At least one stator plate of said electric motor may serves as the stator of the magnetic drive. Both magnetic drives secured on a common shaft placed in the inside opening of the said axle, said shaft at first magnetic drive is hollow and said shaft at second magnetic drive made as a bolt that secures and interlocks both said magnetic drives.
The magnetic drive further has at least one ended ferrous metal plate that is mounted opposite said magnetic drive to said electric motor on said axle for strengthening and alignment of said flux lines in direction to said magnetized disk.
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
An integrated motorized pump 1 (
The impeller 2 (
Each of two magnetic drives 6 (
Each magnetic drive 6 electro magnetically coupled with the electric motor 7 (
The stator plates 20 and 20A (
The stator plates 20 and 20A are covered with a liquid tight coating from the rotor 19 side and comprises circumferential arrayed coils 21 etched on circuit board metal layers 22. The coils 21 are at least partially positioned within the gaps 18 and 18A between the magnetized disks 15 and 15A and the magnetic means 13. The number of the coils 21 is divisible in respect to the number of the magnetic means 13 and the magnetized poles 17.
There are many versions of electronic controlling device with different protection schemes available, however they all perform essentially the same control function. The Full Bridge Drive has a few advantages over the Single Ended Drive as can be seen in the following comparison table.
Using the Two Phase-Single Ended Drive as the controlling device 28 requires a differently designed stator 14 of the magnetic drive 6 and stator plate 20 and 20A of the electric motor 7. Coils 21 on the circuits boards 22 of stator plates 20 and 20A and coils windings 16 on the circuits boards 22 of stator 14 (
Each adjacent coil 21 and coils winding 16 has the opposite magnetic polarity at any one point in time.
The series connection is broken between two of the adjacent coils 21 and coils windings 16, on each on the stator plates 20 and stator 14 for electrical leads attachment 39. The two leads 39 from each of the on the stator 14 and stator plates 20 can be connected in parallel to each other or series. The connections must be phased to generate proper magnetic fields on the stator 14 and stator plates 20 relative to the rotor 19. The face of each of the stator 14 and stator plates 20 facing the rotor 19 is polarized such that the coils 21 and coils windings 16 aligning directly across each magnetized pole 17 has opposite polarities from each other at any one point in time. If connected in series, the remaining lead from each of the stator 14 and stator plates 20 will be attached to the Full Bridge Motor Driver. If connected in parallel, each of the two connected leads will be attached to the Full Bridge Motor Driver (the controlling device 28). Monitoring of a rotor's 19 position for commutation of the electric motor 7 and the magnetic drives 6 are accomplished by means of a hall device sensing only a position of the rotor 19 of electric motor 7.
The magnetic drive 6
The electric motor 7 has two stator plates 20 and 20A are permanently attached to the casing 8, axle 3 and are covered from the rotor 19 side with a liquid tight coating with a plastic material to ensure a fluid seal and protect their coils 21 from the fluids within the pump flowing part 12. Stator plates 20 and 20A are joined at the outer edges of the casing 8 and frames 90. The rotor 19 of the electric motors 7 is fashioned in the shape of the drum type impeller 2 that includes impeller disk 4 and blades 5 attached to that impeller disk 4. The impeller disk 4 with blades 5 is placed between two parallel stator plates 20, 20A and separated from them by a fixed distance. Some of the blades 5 and impeller disk 4 are made from magnetic plastic material or some other permanent magnet material and serve as magnetized means 13. Blades 5 and impeller disk 4 are magnetized in the direction parallel to the axle 3. This allows the edges of blades 5 adjacent to one of the stator plates 20, to have the opposite magnetic polarity as the edges of some blades 5 adjacent to the other stator plate 20A. The number of blades 5 of the rotor 19 is divisible in respect to the number of coils 21 on the stator plates 20. It is possible to have some blades 5A magnetized in the direction parallel to the axle 3, or parts of the impeller disk 4 magnetized in the same direction. The number of coils 21 depends on how many electrical phases the electric motor 7 will have. All figures of the preferred embodiment represent a single-phase drive, full bridge configuration. The axle 3 may be hermetically secured with the casing 8 and the stator plates 20, so the pump flowing part 12 became sealless.
The magnetic drives 6 as an outer part and the electric motor 7 as an inner part of the integrated motorized pump 1 additionally coupled electro magnetically by means of that the stator plates 20, 20A of the electric motor 7 serve as stator 14 for the magnetic drives 6, in other words electric motor 7 and magnetic drives 6 have common stator parts. The magnetized disks 15 and 15A of the magnetic drives 6 are mounted on the axle 3 perpendicularly to the axle 3 and have a circumferential array of radially extending magnetized poles 17. But it is possible to have separate stator plates and stators for electric motor 7 and magnetic drive 6. The magnetized poles 17 are spaced axially from the magnetic means 13 of the impeller 2 to form a gap 18, and magnetized poles 17 of the magnetized disk 15 are magnetically opposite to the magnetic means 13 of the impeller, such that the flux lines of the magnetized N poles 17 of the magnetized disk 15 extends to S poles of the magnetic means 13 of the impeller 2 in the shortest axial flux dimension across the gap 18.
The integrated motorized pump 1 on
The internal channel 24, the inlet and outlet channels 10 and 11 are spaced at a plane perpendicular to the axle 3, so as liquid flows through the inlet channel 10, the blades 5 of the impeller 2, the internal channel 24, the blades 5 of impeller 2 again and the outlet channel 11 in a series way.
The impeller 2 of the electric motor 7 has a hard steel insert 37 that might be permanently attached during the impeller molding process. (It is possible to produce the impeller 2 in other conventional manners). This hard steel insert 37 serves as part of the bearing 34. The liquid that moved through the pump flowing part 12 serves as the lubricant for the bearing 34 formed by these two surfaces. Located on each side of the rotor are washers 38 that decreasing the friction of the rotor 19.
The total motor torque is achieved by the combined magnetic and electro magnetic forces generated by two magnetic drives 6 and electric motor 7. Each of two magnetic drives 6 includes a stator 14 made as a circuit board 22 with printed coils windings 16 and two magnetized disks 15, 15A with alternative magnetized poles 17, and 17A. The magnetized poles 17, 17A magnetically interact from the both sides with the magnetic blades 5 of the impeller 2. Simultaneously magnetic poles 17, 17A and magnetic blades 5 are interacting with stator plate 20, 20A from the both sides of the each stator plate 20, and 20A. The magnetic flux path of the magnetized poles 17, 17A and magnetic blades 5 is through the entire motor rotor and stator assembly. The coils windings 16 along with coils 21 of the stators 14 and stator plates 20 are energized in a fashion to create a rotating magnetic field around the axle 3 and in turn causing the magnetic drives 6 and electric motor 7 to rotate. The inner impeller 2 is locked in sync with the outer magnetic drives 6 by the strong magnetic fields generated by the coil windings 16 and coils 21 in conjunction with the magnetized poles 17, 17A and magnetized blades 5. This allows for impeller 2 rotations with the required torque to move fluids against moderate head pressures.
While various embodiments have been shown, it should also be obvious to those having ordinary skill in the art that there are still further variations in the number of parts of the magnetic drives, magnetic means, magnetized disks and other features of the invention which while not disclose, are encompassed within the spirit of the invention.
This application is a U.S. National Phase Application under 35 USC 371 of International Application PCT/U502/026711 filed Aug. 20, 2002 which claims the benefit of priority of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/314,016, filed Aug. 21, 2001.
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