Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for cooling a rotor assembly
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Application No.: US17587366Application Date: 2022-01-28
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Publication No.: US12206292B2Publication Date: 2025-01-21
- Inventor: Balamurugan Sridharan , Anirban Chatterjee , Ami Hatim
- Applicant: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Grand Rapids
- Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC
- Current Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Grand Rapids
- Agency: McGarry Bair PC
- Main IPC: H02K1/32
- IPC: H02K1/32 ; H02K1/24 ; H02K1/26 ; H02K3/24 ; H02K9/19 ; H02K19/16

Abstract:
A method of cooling a set of rotor winding end turns of a rotor assembly can include directing a fluid coolant flow to a coil support assembly, delivering the fluid coolant flow, by a first coolant distribution ring of the coil support assembly, radially outward toward rotor winding end turns; and delivering the fluid coolant flow, by a coil support disc of the coil support assembly, axially outward toward the rotor winding end turns. The method can further include expelling fluid coolant flow by a second coolant distribution ring radially outward toward a set of stator windings, and expelling, by the coil support disc, the fluid coolant flow axially outward toward the rotor core.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230246499A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COOLING A ROTOR ASSEMBLY Public/Granted day:2023-08-03
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