Deere & Company

Robert K Salamon

Clayton P Neumann

Sean Patrick West

Bryon P Neumann

Marcus L Kuhl

Mark E Breutzman

Bhupesh Agrawal

William E Reeves

Jonathan M Peiffer

An electric machine including a distributed cooling system is disclosed. The electric machine includes a housing, a stator assembly, a rotor assembly, and a distributed cooling system. The distributed cooling system comprising at least one inlet, a first passage, a second passage, and a third passage. The first passage extending axially in a first direction through at least a portion of the rotor shaft to direct a flow of coolant in the first direction. A second passage fluidly coupled to the first passage extending in a second direction through at least a portion of the rotor shaft between a receiving end and a distributing end. At least one third passage fluidly coupled to the second passage extending between a first end and a second end and distributes coolant received from the second passage to at least one of the first end or the second end into the stator assembly.

Electric machine distributed cooling system and method

A forestry machine configured to cut timber, where the forestry machine comprises a felling head including a support frame having an accumulation pocket, an accumulating arm, and a harvest arm. The forestry machine further comprises a stator having coils thereon adapted to produce a time varying stator magnetic field, a rotor having at least either a set of slots or a set of permanent magnets mounted thereon facing the stator and adapted to produce a radially directed flux or an axially directed flux. The rotor is rotatably coupled to the stator in axial alignment therewith by the time varying stator magnetic field. The rotor comprises a saw blade.

Felling head for a forestry machine

An electrical machine comprising a rotor; a stator comprising a lamination stack that includes a plurality of laminations aligned coaxially, the lamination stack defining a central bore sized to receive the rotor; and a casing defining a central bore sized to receive the stator, the casing comprising a cooling circuit intended for circulation of a cooling fluid, the cooling circuit comprising an inlet opening for letting cooling fluid in, the inlet opening positioned at the center of a lateral wall of the casing, and a first fluid passage and a second fluid passage originating from the inlet opening, extending from the center of a lateral wall of the casing towards a corresponding end of the casing.

Electrical motor cooling design

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New Haven, WI, United States of America

Robert K Salamon