Magneti Marelli

Patrick Giuliani

Franco Ciampolini

Marzio Lettich

Francesco Leli

Vincenzo Giorgianni

Matteo Cataldi

An electric motor including a rotor, rotating about an axis of rotation, and a stator, coaxial to the rotor. The stator has a casing. A body incorporates a controller of the electric motor. The body is placed outside the stator and parallel to the axis of rotation in a position substantially tangent to the casing of the stator. The rotor includes a first and second cooling fan, keyed on respective first and second axial ends of the rotor, opposite along the axis of rotation. The first and second cooling fans generate respectively, with the rotation of the rotor, a first and a second flow of cooling air independent of each other. The first flow of cooling air is directed toward the first axial end of the rotor, and the second flow of cooling air is directed towards the body so as to cool down the controller.

Electric motor having a tangential architecture with improved air cooling

A method for building a magnetic core including laminations bound into packs for an electrical machine comprises steps of: stacking a group of laminations one on top of the other to build the core; binding into a pack the group building the core by locking members that axially compress the group with a predetermined clamping force; pre-compressing, before clamping the pack by the locking members, the group by a pre-compression press that is independent and separate from the locking members; measuring an axial length of the group while the group is being compressed by the pre-compression press; initially forming the group with a normally lacking number of laminations to initially have the measured length that is lower than or substantially equal to a desired length; and adding, after having completed pre-compression, an additional number of laminations to the group determined according to a difference between the desired and measured lengths.

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Patrick Giuliani