- 专利标题: COOLING A STATOR HOUSING OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE
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申请号: US17390009申请日: 2021-07-30
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公开(公告)号: US20220069672A1公开(公告)日: 2022-03-03
- 发明人: Joseph John Zierer , Brian Magann Rush , Karthik K. Bodla , Andrew Thomas Cross , Vandana Prabhakar Rallabandi , Konrad Roman Weeber , Anoop Kumar Jassal
- 申请人: General Electric Company
- 申请人地址: US NY Schenectady
- 专利权人: General Electric Company
- 当前专利权人: General Electric Company
- 当前专利权人地址: US NY Schenectady
- 主分类号: H02K9/20
- IPC分类号: H02K9/20 ; H02K3/24 ; H02K1/20 ; H02K3/12 ; H02K1/16 ; H02K5/18 ; H02K5/20
摘要:
An electric motor may include a stator assembly comprising a stator housing, and one or more rotors coupled to the stator by a rotor shaft assembly. The stator housing may include a cooling structure that has a plurality of cooling body portions and a plurality of cooling conduits defined by the plurality of cooling body portions. A method of forming a stator housing for an electric machine may include additively manufacturing a stator housing that includes a cooling structure defining a fluid domain, coupling a working fluid source to the stator housing and introducing a working fluid into the fluid domain defined by the cooling structure, and sealing the cooling structure with the working fluid contained within the fluid domain of the cooling structure. A method of cooling an electric machine may include heating the working fluid in the fluid domain and flowing the working fluid through the fluid domain, and transferring heat from the cooling structure to a cooling fluid flowing along one or more cooling surfaces contacting a surface of the electric machine.