BALANCED CURRENT COLLECTOR PLATE
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240186658A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-06

    申请号:US18072815

    申请日:2022-12-01

    摘要: Embodiments include a battery pack having a balanced current collector plate configured to connect a plurality of battery cells to one another and an electric vehicle including the same. The balanced current collector plate includes a terminal and a plurality of cell connection regions, each corresponding to one of the plurality of battery cells. Each of the plurality of cell connection regions includes one or more sidewalls, a cell connection tab that is configured to contact a terminal of a battery cell, and a cell fuse that is configured to electrically connect the cell connection tab to the balanced current collector plate. The geometry of each of the plurality of cell connection regions is configured to minimize a difference among the current draw between each of the plurality of battery cells and the terminal.

    PHYSICS BASED COOLANT FLOW ALGORITHM FOR ELECTRIC MOTORS

    公开(公告)号:US20240348126A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-17

    申请号:US18298724

    申请日:2023-04-11

    IPC分类号: H02K9/00 H05K7/20

    CPC分类号: H02K9/00 H05K7/20845

    摘要: A vehicle, system, and method of operating a motor of the vehicle. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. A motor controller controls a motor torque of the motor. A sensor measures a motor speed. A rotor temperature sensor measures a temperature of the rotor. A stator temperature sensor measures a temperature of the stator. A processor determines a stator heat loss at the stator based on the motor torque, the motor speed, and the stator temperature, determines a rotor heat loss at the rotor based on the motor torque, the motor speed, and the rotor temperature, and controls flow of a stator coolant stream through the stator at a stator coolant flow rate based on the stator heat loss and a rotor coolant stream through the rotor at a rotor coolant flow rate based on the rotor heat loss.

    Reinforced rotor for an electric machine

    公开(公告)号:US12062946B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-13

    申请号:US17374244

    申请日:2021-07-13

    IPC分类号: H02K1/28 H02K1/32

    CPC分类号: H02K1/28 H02K1/32

    摘要: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor body formed from a plurality of stacked laminations defining a first axial end and an opposing second axial end. Each of the plurality of stacked laminations includes a plurality of openings that are aligned so as to define a plurality of passages through the rotor body. A plurality of reinforcement elements extend through the plurality of stacked laminations. Each of the plurality of reinforcement elements is arranged in a corresponding one of the plurality of passages and includes a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion and the second end portion of select ones of the plurality of reinforcement elements extend outwardly of the first axial end and the second axial end.

    Disconnected rotor web for increased reluctance

    公开(公告)号:US12046952B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-23

    申请号:US17725653

    申请日:2022-04-21

    IPC分类号: H02K1/27

    CPC分类号: H02K1/27

    摘要: A rotor of an electric machine includes: N pole pieces, each of the N pole pieces including two half pole pieces, where N is an integer greater than 2; apertures through the half pole pieces, respectively; permanent magnets disposed within the apertures, respectively, the permanent magnets including, in each of the N pole pieces, a first permanent magnet of a first magnetic polarity and a second permanent magnet of a second magnetic polarity; and structural non-magnetic portions disposed in gaps of the half pole pieces, respectively, and configured to magnetically disconnect a rotor web from a q-axis flux guide.

    Rotor core with load bearing polymer and insert

    公开(公告)号:US11777348B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-03

    申请号:US17392666

    申请日:2021-08-03

    摘要: A rotor core for an electric machine of an automobile includes a core stack including a plurality of lamination plates. Each lamination plate includes a plurality of apertures formed therein. The plurality of apertures of each of the lamination plates are axially aligned and define and a slot extending through the core stack and shaped to receive a corresponding insert. The rotor core also includes at least one insert received by the slot that provides radial structural stability to the plurality of lamination plates to prevent portions of the plurality of lamination plates adjacent the plurality of magnet slots from flexing due to radial forces exerted on the plurality of lamination plates during operation of the rotor core. The rotor core includes a load bearing polymer disposed within the aperture of the rotor core that provides contact between and the insert and the lamination plates.

    REINFORCED ROTOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE

    公开(公告)号:US20230017309A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17374244

    申请日:2021-07-13

    IPC分类号: H02K1/28 H02K1/32

    摘要: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor body formed from a plurality of stacked laminations defining a first axial end and an opposing second axial end. Each of the plurality of stacked laminations includes a plurality of openings that are aligned so as to define a plurality of passages through the rotor body. A plurality of reinforcement elements extend through the plurality of stacked laminations. Each of the plurality of reinforcement elements is arranged in a corresponding one of the plurality of passages and includes a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion and the second end portion of select ones of the plurality of reinforcement elements extend outwardly of the first axial end and the second axial end.