Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Thomas Hümer

Ekkehard Ressel

Sebastian Weiss

Josef Niedermeyer

Jürgen Labermeier

Benjamin Eichinger

Carsten Mauss

An electric machine includes an inner fan in an inner cooling circuit and an outer fan for producing an outer coolant flow that is separate from the inner cooling circuit. The inner and outer fans are connected to a common shaft of the electric machine and have opposite delivery directions along an axial direction of the electric machine. The outer fan is arranged in a fan housing which has an inlet opening for the inward flow of a coolant of the outer coolant flow, and includes an air directing device, which guides the coolant in a line section which extends in the radial direction of the electric machine from the inlet opening towards the outer fan.

Electric machine and method for cooling an electric machine

An electric machine has a housing, a rotor shaft mounted in the housing, a rotor laminate stack arranged on the rotor shaft and having axial cooling channels and radial cooling channels, and a stator laminate stack having radial cooling channels which are open radially inwards and radially outwards and interact with the radial cooling channels of the rotor laminate stack. The housing has a lateral surface to delimit the housing interior in a radial direction and radial dividers arranged between end windings of the stator winding and the axial ribs, when viewed in the radial direction, and are spaced in the radial direction from the lateral surface delimiting the housing interior and forming tangential cooling air channels for the cooling air.

Electric machine having radial dividers for guiding cooling air

A housing attachment for an electric machine is constructed in compliance with protection class IP 23 and includes a first projected edge disposed at a first border wall such that water located in the middle section at the first border wall drips off no later than at the first projected edge and is led directly or indirectly to the first air inlet opening. Proximate to the first air inlet opening are first laminates which deflect incoming air flowing into the feed air channel to a second edge area. Proximate to the second air outlet opening are second laminates that impart to the flow direction of the outgoing air leaving the outlet air channel a component directed to the top of the electric machine. Third laminates are disposed in an end area of the outlet air channel to deflect the outlet air flowing in the outlet air channel away from the top of the electric machine.

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Nürnberg, Germany

Thomas Hümer