Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Martin Sindelka

Sebastian Weiss

Reiner Grillenberger

Thomas Koch

Felix Noack

Ulrich Werner

Gerhard Dorr

Sebastian Weiß

An electric machine includes a housing having an air inlet opening near a front or rear end of the housing for aspirating air, and an air outlet opening for expelling air. The housing accommodates a stator, and a rotor is mounted in the housing for rotation about an axis of rotation. Mounted on a side of the housing in parallel relation to the axis of rotation is a hood-like attachment to cover the air inlet and outlet openings so that air expelled from the housing through the air outlet opening is fed back to the air inlet opening. Disposed in the stator are pipes for flow of a liquid cooling medium to directly cool the stator during operation. At least some of the pipes project beyond the stator toward the front and rear ends, so that during operation heat is removed by the pipes from air flowing in the housing.

Electric machine with combined air and water cooling

A dynamo-electric machine includes a self-supporting housing that has a laminated core section and at least one connecting section in the axial extension of the laminated core section. The laminated core section accommodates and secures, and at least sectionally surrounds all sides of, a laminated core of a stator. The individual sheets of the laminated core have a basic outer shape with an especially octagonal cross-section, a stator bore surrounded by radially arranged grooves which are evenly distributed along the circumference of the stator bore, a yoke back that radially adjoins the grooves and extends equidistantly from the stator bore, and axial cavities in the sheet, in regions between the yoke, back and the basic outer shape of the sheets.

Dynamoelectric machine comprising a self-supporting housing

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Nürnberg, Germany

Martin Sindelka