The present invention relates to a rotating electric machine.
A rotating electric machine including a rotor, a stator disposed on an outer diameter side of the rotor, and a cooling structure that drops a cooling liquid to a coil end of a stator coil wound around the stator to cool the coil end is known (see PTL 1). When the cooling liquid is dropped on the coil end, the dropped cooling liquid flows downward along the circumference of the coil end, and the coil end is cooled.
The inventors of the present application have found a problem that since the extra-slot conductor protruding from the slot of the stator core is bent toward one side in the circumferential direction with respect to the intra-slot conductor, non-uniformness occurs in an adhesion range of the refrigerant to the coil end, and the cooling performance by the refrigerant is affected.
An object of the present invention is to suppress non-uniformness in an adhesion range of a refrigerant to a coil end and to effectively cool a stator coil.
A rotating electric machine according to one aspect of the present invention includes a rotor disposed such that a rotation center axis is horizontal, a stator disposed with an air gap between the stator and the rotor in a radial direction, and a case that supports the stator and forms a flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The stator includes a stator core having a plurality of slots and a stator coil attached to the stator core, the stator coil includes an intra-slot conductor disposed in the slot of the stator core and an extra-slot conductor disposed outside the slot, and the case forms a first outflow hole and a second outflow hole through which a refrigerant flows out toward the extra-slot conductor. in a state in which the case is installed, the first outflow hole and the second outflow hole are arranged above the extra-slot conductor, and when a bending direction of the extra-slot conductor with respect to the intra-slot conductor arranged on an outermost diameter side in the slot in the stator coil arranged above the stator is an upper coil bending direction, and a straight line perpendicular to the horizontal and passing through the rotation center axis is a vertical line, the first outflow hole is arranged on the upper coil bending direction side with respect to the vertical line, the second outflow hole is arranged on a side opposite to the upper coil bending direction with respect to the vertical line, and the first outflow hole and the second outflow hole are formed such that a second arrangement angle that is an angle formed by a straight line connecting the second outflow hole and the rotation center axis and the vertical line is larger than a first arrangement angle that is an angle formed by a straight line connecting the first outflow hole and the rotation center axis and the vertical line.
According to the present invention, it is possible to suppress non-uniformness in the adhesion range of the refrigerant to the coil end and to effectively cool the stator coil.
A rotating electric machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The rotating electric machine according to the present embodiment is a rotating electric machine suitable to be used for traveling of a vehicle. The rotating electric machine according to the present embodiment can be applied to both a pure electric vehicle that travels only by the rotating electric machine and a hybrid electric vehicle that is driven by both an engine and the rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine is an induction motor including a squirrel-cage rotor or is a synchronous motor including a rotor having a permanent magnet. Hereinafter, a synchronous motor used in a hybrid electric vehicle will be described as an example.
The rotating electric machine 100 performs a power running operation for generating a driving force and a regenerative operation for recovering energy according to a traveling state of the vehicle. Drive and power generation operations of the rotating electric machine 100 are controlled by a power conversion device INV such that the torque and the rotation speed are optimized according to the operation status of the vehicle. Power necessary for driving the rotating electric machine 100 is supplied from a battery BAT via the power conversion device INV. When the rotating electric machine 100 is in the power generation operation, the battery BAT is charged with electric energy via the power conversion device INV.
The structure of the rotating electric machine 100 will be described with reference to the drawings. Since the first rotating electric machine 100A and the second rotating electric machine 100B have substantially the same structure, the structure of the first rotating electric machine 100A will be described below as a representative example. Note that the structure described below is not necessarily employed in both the first rotating electric machine 100A and the second rotating electric machine 100B, and may be employed in only one of them. In the following description, an “axial direction”, a “circumferential direction”, and a “radial direction” are as follows. The “axial direction” is a direction along the rotation center axis Ca of the rotating electric machine 100 (a rotor 150). The rotation center axis Ca coincides with the center axis of a cylindrical stator 130. The “circumferential direction” is a direction along the rotation direction of the rotating electric machine 100 (the rotation direction of the rotor 150), that is, a circumferential direction orthogonal to the rotation center axis Ca and centered on the rotation center axis Ca. The “radial direction” is a radiation direction perpendicular to the rotation center axis Ca of the rotating electric machine 100 and centered on the rotation center axis Ca, that is, a radius direction. In addition, the “inner peripheral side” refers to the radially inner side (inner diameter side), and the “outer peripheral side” refers to the opposite direction, that is, the radially outer side (outer diameter side).
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The rotating electric machine 100 is a permanent-magnet-embedded three-phase synchronous motor generator. The rotating electric machine 100 operates as an electric motor that rotates the rotor 150 by supplying a three-phase alternating current to a stator coil 138 wound around the stator core 132. The rotating electric machine 100 is driven by the engine ENG to operate as a generator and output generated power of three-phase alternating current.
The case 110 includes a case body 112 and an end bracket 111. The case body 112 is a bottomed cylindrical member having one end opened, and has a cylindrical portion 113 and a bottom portion 114. The end bracket 111 is attached to the case body 112 so as to close the opening of the case body 112 (the opening of the cylindrical portion 113). Insertion holes 111a and 114a through which a shaft 118 is inserted are provided in the end bracket 111 and the bottom portion 114 of the case body 112. A first bearing 14A is provided in the insertion hole 111a of the end bracket 111, and a second bearing 14B is provided in the insertion hole 114a of the bottom portion 114 of the case body 112. The case 110 may be constituted by a center bracket whose both axial ends are opened and a pair of end brackets axially sandwiching the center bracket. In other words, the cylindrical portion 113 and the bottom portion 114 of the case body 112 may be provided as separate members, and the two members may be connected by a bolt or the like.
The case 110 is provided with an attachment portion 110a to be attached to a support member 9 of the vehicle body of the vehicle. The support member 9 of the vehicle body is, for example, a support member provided in the case of the transmission TM, a support member provided in the case of the engine ENG, or a support member provided between the transmission TM and the engine ENG. The rotating electric machine 100 is attached to the vehicle by fastening the attachment portion 110a to the support member 9 with a bolt or the like. The case 110 may constitute a part of the case of the transmission TM or a part of the case of the engine ENG.
The rotor 150 is fixed to the shaft 118. The shaft 118 is a columnar or cylindrical member. When the shaft 118 is supported by the first bearing 14A and the second bearing 14B, the rotor 150 is rotatably held inside the stator core 132. The rotor 150 is disposed such that the rotation center axis Ca is horizontal. That is, the attachment portion 110a of the case 110 is formed such that the rotation center axis Ca is set to be horizontal when the attachment portion 110a is attached to the support member 9.
In the cylindrical portion 113 of the case body 112, a refrigerant passage 121 as a flow path through which a liquid refrigerant flows is formed. That is, the case body 112 is a flow path forming member forming the refrigerant passage 121. In the present embodiment, the refrigerant passage 121 has a rectangular cross-sectional shape having a width (axial length) larger than a height (radial length), and is formed in a spiral shape along the circumferential direction of the cylindrical portion 113.
The refrigerant is oil having a kinematic viscosity of 4 to 24 [mm2/s] at 100° C. In the present embodiment, the refrigerant is an automatic transmission fluid (ATF) used for lubrication and cooling of components (power transmission unit and the like) in the transmission TM.
The refrigerant is sucked by a pump (not illustrated) from a refrigerant reservoir (not illustrated) in the lower portion of the rotating electric machine 100, flows out from a first outflow hole 122A and a second outflow hole 122B (see
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Teeth 134 are formed between the slots 133. In the present embodiment, the plurality of teeth 134 is integrated with an annular core back 135. That is, the stator core 132 is an integrated core in which the plurality of teeth 134 and the core back 135 are integrally molded. The teeth 134 form a magnetic path in the radial direction, and the core back 135 forms a magnetic path in the circumferential direction. The teeth 134 guide a rotating magnetic field generated by the stator coil 138 to the rotor 150, and cause the rotor 150 to generate rotational torque.
The stator core 132 is formed, for example, by laminating a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets having an annular shape. The stator core 132 is fitted and fixed to the inside of the cylindrical portion (see
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In the rotor core 152, rectangular parallelepiped magnet insertion holes are formed at equal intervals in the circumferential direction in the vicinity of the outer peripheral portion, and the permanent magnet 154 is embedded in each magnet insertion hole and fixed with an adhesive or the like. The circumferential width of the magnet insertion hole is larger than the circumferential width of the permanent magnet 154. A magnetic gap 156 is formed between both circumferential ends of the permanent magnet 154 and both circumferential ends of the magnet insertion hole. An adhesive may be embedded in the magnetic gap 156, or the magnetic gap may be fixed integrally with the permanent magnets 154 with a resin.
The magnetization direction of the permanent magnets 154 is directed in the radial direction, and the magnetization direction is reversed for each field pole. That is, assuming that the surface on the stator 130 side of the permanent magnet 154 for forming a certain magnetic pole is magnetized to the N pole and the surface on the shaft 118 side is magnetized to the S pole, the surface on the stator 130 side of the permanent magnet 154 forming the adjacent magnetic pole is magnetized to the S pole, and the surface on the shaft 118 side is magnetized to the N pole.
In the present embodiment, an auxiliary magnetic pole 159 is formed between the permanent magnets 154 forming a magnetic pole. The auxiliary magnetic pole 159 acts so as to reduce the magnetic resistance of a q-axis magnetic flux generated by the stator coil 138. The auxiliary magnetic pole 159 makes the magnetic resistance of the q-axis magnetic flux much smaller than the magnetic resistance of the d-axis magnetic flux, so that a large reluctance torque is generated.
The stator coil 138 will be described with reference to
The stator coil 138 includes intra-slot conductors 137 disposed in the slots 133 of the stator core 132, and coil ends 139 which are extra-slot conductors disposed to protrude from both ends of the stator core 132 to the outside of the slots 133. For the stator coil 138, a rectangular wire (see
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AC terminals 41(U), 42(V), and 43(W), which are coil conductors for input/output of the stator coils 138 of the three UVW phases, and neutral point connection conductors 40 are led out to one coil end 139 of the stator coil 138. The stator 130 is connected to the power conversion device INV via the AC terminals 41(U), 42(V), and 43(W). The neutral point connection conductors 40 are disposed on both sides of the AC terminals 41(U), 42(V), and 43(W). The neutral point connection conductors 40 include a U1-phase neutral line at the end of winding of the U1 phase, a V1-phase neutral line at the end of winding of the V1 phase, and a W1-phase neutral line at the end of winding of the W1 phase, and are welded in advance. The same applies to the U2, V2, and W2 phases.
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When the segment conductors 140 are connected to each other to form each phase winding, as illustrated in
A portion connecting the segment conductors 140 is referred to as a connection portion 149. The connection portion 149 has a pair of inclined portions 147a and 147b and an end portion 140e provided in each of the inclined portions 147a and 147b. The end portion 140e is formed by bending a distal end portion of the inclined portion 147a so as to be parallel to the axial direction. The inclined portions 143a and 143b are connected to the leg portions 141a and 141b via bent portions 146. The bent portions 146 are formed by bending the end portions of the pair of leg portions 141a and 141b outward in the circumferential direction such that the end portions of the pair of leg portions 141a and 141b are further apart from each other. Similarly to the inclined portions 143a and 143b, the inclined portions 147a and 147b are inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to straight portions of the leg portions 141a and 141b parallel to the axial direction. Insulating films at the end portions 140e are removed before welding.
When each segment conductor 140 is welded at the end portions 140e and attached to the stator core 132 as the stator coil 138, as illustrated in
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The coil end (extra-slot conductor) 139 which protrudes to the outside on the other side (right side in the drawing) in the axial direction of the stator core 132 and is exposed from the stator core 132 and has a connection portion 149 (see
The outflow holes 122A and 122B through which the refrigerant flows out toward the coil ends 139 will be described in detail with reference to
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In the following description, a bending direction of the extra-slot conductor with respect to the intra-slot conductor in the conductor constituting the outermost peripheral portion of the coil end 139 disposed on the upper portion of the stator 130 is referred to as an upper coil bending direction. More specifically, the upper coil bending direction is a bending direction of the extra-slot conductor (corresponding to the inclined portions 143a and 147a of the segment conductor 140 illustrated in
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As described above, the extra-slot conductor (inclined portion 147a) protruding from the slot 133 of the stator core 132 is bent toward one side in the circumferential direction (counterclockwise direction in the drawing) with respect to the intra-slot conductor 137. The refrigerant dropped from the first outflow hole 122A and the second outflow hole 122B to the outermost peripheral portion of the coil end 139 flows along the coil conductor (inclined portion 147a) of the outermost peripheral portion. For this reason, if the first outflow hole 122A and the second outflow hole 122B are disposed symmetrically with respect to the vertical line VL, there is a possibility that non-uniformness occurs in the adhesion range of the refrigerant to the coil end 139. Therefore, in the present embodiment, by arranging the first outflow hole 122A and the second outflow hole 122B asymmetrically with respect to the vertical line VL, non-uniformness in the adhesion range of the refrigerant is reduced.
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The non-adhesion range 191 on the upper portion of the welded coil end 139A according to the present embodiment is larger than the non-adhesion range 991 on the upper portion of the welded coil end 139A according to the comparative example, but the non-adhesion range 192 on the side portion of the welded coil end 139A according to the present embodiment is smaller than the non-adhesion range 992 on the side portion of the welded coil end 139A according to the comparative example. Since the difference between the non-adhesion range 192 and the non-adhesion range 992 on the side portions of the coil ends 139 is larger than the difference between the non-adhesion range 191 and the non-adhesion range 991 on the upper portions of the coil ends 139, the total non-adhesion area of the rotating electric machine 100 according to the present embodiment is smaller than the total non-adhesion area of the rotating electric machine 900 according to the comparative example.
In the present embodiment, it has been confirmed by simulation that the total adhesion range of the refrigerant to the coil end 139 of the rotating electric machine 100 is about 20% larger than the total adhesion range of the refrigerant to the coil end 139 of the rotating electric machine 900.
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On the other hand, in the present embodiment, as compared with the comparative example, since the second outflow hole 122B is disposed at a position shifted in the direction opposite to the upper coil bending direction Da (that is, the direction in which the refrigerant is guided) from the line symmetrical position of the first outflow hole 122A with reference to the vertical line VL, the non-adhesion range 192 on the right side portion of the welded coil end 139A can be reduced, and non-uniformness in the adhesion range of the refrigerant to the left and right side portions of the welded coil end 139A can be suppressed as compared with the comparative example. Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the adhesion area of the refrigerant to the entire welded coil end 139A can be increased, and the welded coil end 139A can be effectively cooled.
Although the welded coil end 139A has been described as a representative, the first outflow hole 122A and the second outflow hole 122B through which the refrigerant drops onto the bent coil end 139B also have the same configuration. As illustrated in
According to the embodiment described above, the following operational effects are obtained.
(1) The rotating electric machine 100 includes a rotor 150 disposed such that a rotation center axis Ca is horizontal, a stator 130 disposed with an air gap between the rotor 150 and the stator 130 in a radial direction, and a case 110 that supports the stator 130 and forms a refrigerant passage (flow path) 121 through which a refrigerant flows.
The stator 130 includes a stator core 132 having a plurality of slots 133 and a stator coil 138 attached to the stator core 132. The stator coil 138 includes an intra-slot conductor 137 disposed in the slot 133 of the stator core 132 and a coil end (extra-slot conductor) 139 disposed outside the slot. The case 110 forms a first outflow hole 122A and a second outflow hole 122B through which the refrigerant flows out toward the coil end (extra-slot conductor) 139. In a state where the case 110 is installed, the first outflow hole 122A and the second outflow hole 122B are arranged above the coil end (extra-slot conductor) 139, and when a bending direction of the coil end (extra-slot conductor) 139 with respect to the intra-slot conductor 137 arranged on the outermost diameter side in the slot 133 in the stator coil 138 arranged above the stator 130 is an upper coil bending direction, and a straight line perpendicular to the horizontal and passing through the rotation center axis Ca is a vertical line VL, the first outflow hole 122A is arranged on the upper coil bending direction side with respect to the vertical line VL, and the second outflow hole 122B is arranged on a side opposite to the upper coil bending direction with respect to the vertical line VL. The first outflow hole 122A and the second outflow hole 122B are formed such that a second arrangement angle θb that is an angle formed by a straight line Lb connecting the second outflow hole 122B and the rotation center axis Ca and the vertical line VL is larger than a first arrangement angle θa that is an angle formed by a straight line La connecting the first outflow hole 122A and the rotation center axis Ca and the vertical line VL.
As described above, in the present embodiment, the second outflow hole 122B is disposed at a position shifted in the direction opposite to the upper coil bending directions (that is, the direction in which the refrigerant is guided) Da and Db from the line symmetrical position of the first outflow hole 122A with reference to the vertical line VL. Therefore, the range of the adhesion to the side portion of the coil end 139 on the side opposite to the upper coil bending directions Da and Db can be increased. As a result, it is possible to suppress non-uniformness in the adhesion range of the refrigerant to the left and right side portions of the coil end 139 with reference to the vertical line VL, to increase the adhesion area of the refrigerant to the entire coil end 139, and to effectively cool the stator coil 138. According to the present embodiment, since the current supplied to the stator coil 138 can be increased by improving the cooling performance, the output of the rotating electric machine 100 can be improved and the efficiency can be improved.
(2) The first outflow hole 122A and the second outflow hole 122B are formed at positions closer to an end surface 132a of the stator core 132 than to an axial end of the coil end (extra-slot conductor) 139. By disposing the first outflow hole 122A and the second outflow hole 122B closer to the stator core 132 than to the axial end of the coil end 139, it is possible to cool the coil end 139 while cooling the end surface 132a of the stator core 132. That is, according to this configuration, the end portion of the stator core 132 can be effectively cooled.
(3) The refrigerant is oil having a kinematic viscosity of 4 to 24 [mm2/s] at 100° C. Therefore, it is possible to effectively cool the stator coil 138 by directly cooling the coil end 139 while suppressing corrosion of the coil end 139.
(4) An angle difference Δθ between the first arrangement angle θa and the second arrangement angle θb is 5 degrees or more and 15 degrees or less. As a result, it is possible to effectively increase the adhesion range of the refrigerant to the side portion of the coil end 139 while suppressing a decrease in the adhesion range of the refrigerant to the upper portion of the coil end 139.
The following modifications are also within the scope of the present invention, and it is also possible to combine configurations indicated in the modifications with the configuration described in the above-described embodiment, and combine the configurations described in the following different modifications.
In the above embodiment, an example in which the first outflow holes 122A and the second outflow holes 122B are formed near the end surface 132a of the stator core 132 has been described. However, the first outflow holes and the second outflow holes may be formed near the axial ends of the coil ends 139. As described above, by forming the first outflow holes 122A and the second outflow holes 122B near the end surface 132a of the stator core 132, the end surface 132a of the stator core 132 can be directly cooled by the refrigerant together with the coil end 139, which is preferable.
In the above embodiment, an example has been described in which the cross-sectional shapes (the shape of the flow path cross section orthogonal to the flow of the refrigerant) of the first outflow holes 122A and the second outflow holes 122B are circular, but the present invention is not limited thereto. For example, the cross-sectional shapes of each of the first outflow holes 122A and the second outflow holes 122B may be an elliptical shape, a polygonal shape, or an irregular shape.
In the above embodiment, an example in which the stator coil 138 is a rectangular wire having a rectangular cross-sectional shape has been described, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The cross-sectional shape of the stator coil 138 may be a polygonal shape such as a triangular shape and a pentagonal shape, a circular shape, an elliptical shape, or an irregular shape.
In the above embodiment, an example has been described in which the first outflow hole 122A and the second outflow hole 122B are provided on each of the one axial end side (the bent coil end 139B side) and the other axial end side (the welded coil end 139A side) of the case body 112, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The first outflow hole 122A and the second outflow hole 122B may be provided only on one axial end side (the bent coil end 139B side) of the case body 112, or the first outflow hole 122A and the second outflow hole 122B may be provided only on the other axial end side (the welded coil end 139A side) of the case body 112.
The arrangement configuration of the segment conductors 140 (see
In the above embodiment, an example in which the four layers (L1, L2, L3, L4) are formed in the slots 133 has been described, but the present invention is not limited thereto. For example, the present invention may be applied to a rotating electric machine including a stator in which two layers are formed in slots 133 or a stator in which six or more layers are formed.
In the above embodiment, an example in which the stator coil 138 is wound around the stator core 132 in wave winding has been described, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The present invention may be applied to a rotating electric machine in which a stator coil 138 is wound around a stator core 132 in lap winding.
In the above embodiment, an example in which the rotating electric machine 100 is mounted on a vehicle has been described, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The present invention can be applied to a case where the rotating electric machine 100 is installed in a machine such that the rotation center axis Ca is horizontal.
Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the above embodiment merely indicates a part of the application example of the present invention, and the technical scope of the present invention is not intended to be limited to the specific configuration of the above embodiment.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2020-102890 | Jun 2020 | JP | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/JP2021/004263 | 2/5/2021 | WO |