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Electric motor with cooling device

US5589720A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 28, 1995
Grant dateDec 31, 1996
Priority date
Expiry dateApr 28, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02K9/197
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In an electric motor the shaft projects beyond the bearing on the closed-end and has a central bore running from this side to close to the drive-end bearing. Centrally in the bore is secured a tube which either extends to close to the end of the bore or is secured in a blind hole in the end of the bore. The tube has a lateral bore in the region of the base of the bore. At the end of the shaft near the closed-end bearing outside the motor housing, a device is secured to the end-plate via which water, used as a coolant, passes into the tube and flows back via the space between the tube and the bore. The tube is held centrally in the bore by two discs, having axial holes, slid over the tube. This construction makes it possible to conduct the heat dissipated in the rotor winding and the rotor, which is transmitted to the shaft, away in the best possible way.

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