Patent Grant
10630146
This application is a National Stage of International Application No. PCT/JP2015/065258 filed May 27, 2015, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to a rotor of a vehicle AC generator mounted on an automobile, a truck, and the like.
In recent years , reduction of vehicle exterior noise and silencing in vehicle compartment have been progressing and engine noise has been reducing; and accordingly, noise of a vehicle AC generator serving as an auxiliary machine that rotates in a relatively high speed has been regarded as more problematic than ever before.
As one of countermeasures, it is known that turbulence which is caused by a rib portion to be formed in a base portion and a blade portion of a cooling fan when the cooling fan equipped in a rotor of the vehicle AC generator rotates is made to flow smoothly by deleting the rib portion (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
On the other hand, centrifugal force is acted on a blade by rotation. In this case, as a countermeasure against leaning after receiving force in an outer diameter direction, there is shown one in which a cutout provided on the inner circumferential side of a blade portion is devised so as to be in perpendicular to the radial direction of a claw (see, for example, Patent Document 2).
Particularly, in the case where it is compelled to set a low strength blade in which only a part of the fan blade is coped with a magnetic pole claw by adopting unequal pitches in consideration of order dispersion of fan sound, it can be coped with by forming a cutout having a length of 2.2 times or less in a dimension R at the root of the fan blade.
Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Registration No. 3279258
Patent Document 2: Japanese Patent Registration No. 4544309
In the above-mentioned conventional rotor of the vehicle AC generator, when it is tried to obtain the fan that suppresses the turbulence by totally eliminating the ribs, actually, the strength of the fan that is a sheet metal product is insufficient. Accordingly, a problem lies in reliability and it cannot be actualized as the rotor of the vehicle AC generator which is continuously rotated and used in a vehicle.
In the case of applying the perpendicular cutout of Patent Document 2 in which it can be considered that the amount of deformation at the blade portion due to the centrifugal force is kept to an acceptable value or below in order to improve its reliability, the dimension of bend radius R in itself that becomes a base of setting length cannot be secured constantly and it is not realistic.
Furthermore, the cutouts in themselves are provided in plural numbers at positions of substantially the same diameter around a shaft and accordingly it is easily assumed that a crack is generated between adjacent cutouts to cause a breakage. That is, a problem exists in that it becomes difficult to secure the strength of the base portion.
The present invention has been made to solve the above described problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a rotor of a vehicle AC generator capable of actualizing both of reliability and silent property.
According to the present invention, there is provided a rotor of a vehicle AC generator which includes a magnetic pole core; a field coil wound around the magnetic pole core; and a cooling fan fixed to the magnetic pole core, in the rotor of the vehicle AC generator, the cooling fan includes: a base portion fixed to the axial end surface of the magnetic pole core; a plurality of blade portions which are each axially arranged in a standing condition from the base portion; and a base rib which is provided in the base portion at a position apart from a root portion of each of the plurality of the blade portions and is arranged in parallel to the extending direction of the blade portion.
According to the rotor of the vehicle AC generator according to the present invention, there can be obtained the rotor of the vehicle AC in which strength durable for rotation use can be secured, large turbulence is not caused, and reliability and silent property can be improved.
Hereinafter, Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to
A rotor 100 in this Embodiment 1 is rotatably supported to a frame of the vehicle AC generator (not shown in the drawings) and is rotatably driven by an engine mounted on a vehicle. The rotor 100 includes a rotating shaft 1; a pair of Lundell type magnetic pole cores 2, 3 fitted onto the rotating shaft 1; a field coil 4 wound around the magnetic pole core 2, 3 via a resin bobbin 5; and cooling fans 9, 10 fixed to the axial end surfaces of the magnetic pole cores 2, 3, respectively.
The magnetic pole core 3 on the rear side has: a columnar boss portion 31 that is rotated integrally with the rotating shaft 1; a disk portion 32 which is formed integrally with the boss portion 31 and is extended on the radial outer side from one axial end surface of the boss portion 31 (an axial external end portion to which the cooling fan 10 on the rear side is fixed); and a plurality of (for example, 8) magnetic pole claws 33 which are formed integrally with the disk portion 32 and are extended individually in the axial direction from an outer circumferential portion of the disk portion 32. Incidentally, the magnetic pole core 2 on the front side also has a shape substantially the same as the shape of the rear side magnetic pole core 3.
The pair of the magnetic pole cores 2, 3 are assembled in a state where the plurality of magnetic pole claws 33 are alternately meshed. Furthermore, the above-mentioned resin bobbin 5 and the field coil 4 wound around thereof are stored in a space surrounded by the boss portion 31, the disk portion 32, and the magnetic pole claws 33 of the Magnetic pole cores 2, 3. A field current flows in the field coil 4 via slip rings 7, 8, whereby the magnetic pole cores 2, 3 are magnetized into an N-pole at one thereof and into an S-pole at the other thereof.
Next, the cooling fan 10 fixed to the axial end surface of the rear side magnetic pole core 3 will be described in detail.
As shown in
The fan base 120 is welded and fixed to the axial end surface of the magnetic pole core 3 by, for example, seven welding portions 122. Furthermore, an opening portion 123 serving as an escape for a connection portion 41 of an end portion (not shown in the drawing) of the field coil 4 and the slip rings 7, 8 is formed in the fan base 120 around the rotating shaft 1.
Furthermore, a narrow groove-shaped cutout portion 124 is provided corresponding to each of the fan blades 110 in the fan base 120 on the inner diameter side (the side near to the center axis) of the fan blade 110 for the purpose of relieving stress in cutting and raising the fan blade 110.
Next, a base rib 121 that is a major portion of the present invention will be described by using
The base rib 121 is provided in the fan base 120 continued to the root of each fan blade 110, the base rib being provided apart from the fan blade 110 and raised independently. The root portion at which the fan blade 110 is arranged in the standing condition has an R-shape (
Furthermore, the base rib 121 is provided across a range at least from a radius of an innermost circumferential side position r1 to a radius of an outermost circumferential side position r2 of the cutout portion 124 (see
Further, a portion where the opening portion 123 is radially extended and accordingly strength is likely to be reduced can also be enhanced by the base rib 121.
Furthermore, the base rib 121 is provided in parallel to a direction in which the fan blade 110 is configured. Incidentally, parallelism in this case is permissible if the base rib 121 is extended in a direction substantially along the blade and the base rib 121 is not necessarily formed in the same shape even when the fan blade 110 is the curve shape.
As described above, according to the rotor of the vehicle AC generator of Embodiment 1 of the present invention, the base rib 121 arranged apart from the root of the fan blade secures the strength of the fan base independently of the fan blade, the fan base is suppressed from generating a crack, the rotor in which turbulence is extremely reduced by extending in parallel to the blade can be actualized, and reliability and silent property can be improved.
Embodiment 2 of the present invention will be described with reference to
The description has been made on the case where the dome shaped base rib 121 is formed as the shape of the bottom portion rib in the above-mentioned Embodiment 1; however, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, as shown in
Embodiment 3 of the present invention will be described with reference to
This Embodiment 3 is an example adapted for other fan blade and
As shown in
Furthermore, since the base rib 221 is not provided on the outer diameter side of the fan blade 210, cooling efficiency on the outer diameter side, in which wind speed is faster and a wind flow is apt to be disturbed, is not deteriorated.
Moreover, the description has been made on only the rear side cooling fan 10 in the above-mentioned respective embodiments; however, the present invention can also be applied to the cooling fan 9 on the front side and similar effects can be exhibited.
Additionally, the description has been made on the cooling fan having the fan blades arranged at unequal angular pitches in the above-mentioned respective embodiments; however, the present invention can also be applied similarly to a cooling fan having fan blades arranged at equal angular pitches and similar effects can be exhibited.
Incidentally, the present invention can freely combine the respective embodiments and appropriately modify and/or omit the respective embodiments, within the scope of the present invention.
The present invention is suitable for actualizing a rotor of a vehicle AC generator capable of improving reliability and silent property.
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