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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Venkata Subramanya Sarma Devarakonda, Bangalore, IN;
Patrick Robert Davis, Glenville, NY (US);
James Jonathan Grant, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Paul August Quail, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
John Russell Yagielski, Scotia, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments include apparatuses adapted to include a dynamoelectric machine rotor with a modified outer surface. In some embodiments apparatuses include a dynamoelectric machine rotor including a rotor body having a spindle, pole regions, the pole regions having a non-uniform radial distance from an axis of rotation of the rotor to an outer surface of the pole regions and a plurality of slots in the outer surface of the rotor body, the plurality of slots being spaced apart in a circumferential direction of the rotor body, each of the plurality of slots extending in an axial direction of the rotor body.