Honeywell International Inc.

Erek Walker

Donald G Godfrey

Balwinder Singh Birdi

Tom Phielix

Ben A Wilson

Shreyas Iyer

Sean Byrnes

Kristen Van Osten

Regina Lockard

Todd Coulam

Electrical generators having one or more conformal support and cooling devices for use in supporting and cooling rotating elements of the generator are disclosed herein. An electrical generator includes a housing, a shaft disposed axially through the housing, a rotor assembly including a plurality of poles that are disposed within the housing and mounted on the shaft, a support wedge disposed between two of the plurality of poles. The conformal support and cooling device includes an internal cooling channel in a helical configuration or a V-shape configuration that extends from a first length-wise end of the support and cooling device to a second length-wise end of the support and cooling device. Additive manufacturing processes are employed to fabricate the conformal support and cooling device.

Conformal cooling devices for rotating generator elements and additive manufacturing processes for fabricating the same

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