Electrical generator or motor structure – Dynamoelectric – Rotary
Patent
1990-07-26
1992-06-16
Skudy, R.
Electrical generator or motor structure
Dynamoelectric
Rotary
310 42, 310 61, 310261, 310270, H02K 348
Patent
active
051226987
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a rotor body for an electric machine having slots for windings and slot keys with wedges for retaining the windings in the slots. The slot keys contain elongated spring strips underlying an amortisseur, in turn, underlying the wedges in the slot keys. The spring strips bias the amortisseur and wedges radially outwardly. Thus, the wedges lie in sufficient, low-resistance, efficient electrical contact with the rotor body at start-up and during low rotor speeds to prevent arcing and localized heating along the interfaces of the rotor parts otherwise resultant from induced surface currents at start-up and low rotor speeds. At the rotor ends, the spring strips bias the amortisseur ends radially outwardly into efficient electrical contact with retaining rings at opposite ends of the rotor body. A tool is also provided having a main arm, a pair of pivotally mounted dogs for engagement in the slot key and straddling the external surface of the slot key, respectively, whereby the tool may be fixed in axial position along the slot key by pressure on the main arm. A second pivotal arm carries a wedge-engaging head whereby the lever is fixed in the slot and the second arm drives the wedge longitudinally into axial position in the slot key.
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Gott Brian E.
Kazmierczak Edmund E.
Keck Richard J.
Pedersen James R.
Terry Vincent G.
General Electric Company
Skudy R.
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