Patents Assigned to FLENDER GMBH
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Patent number: 11942844Abstract: A tooth-wound coil of a stator or of a stator segment of a dynamo-electric machine having two straight sections spaced apart from each other and running substantially parallel. Two 180° curves are located on the ends thereof, wherein the straight sections have an active part area, the axial extend of which is less than or equal to that of the straight section. The tooth-wound coil has a symmetrical extension plane running in the longitudinal direction. An insulation material is provided around the straight sections of the tooth-wound coil. The material effects groove isolation and/or phase isolation in the stator or stator segment.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Kevin Bodensiek, Robin Brenner, Klaus Schäfer, Norbert Schönbauer, Michael Weger
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Patent number: 11920641Abstract: A coupling includes a claw part and an intermediate piece. The intermediate piece includes a tube piece produced from aluminum or from an aluminum alloy, and a buffer part received in an end region of the tube piece and including elastic damping elements for receiving the claw part. The damping elements are surrounded by the end region radially at an outside in a circumferential direction. The buffer part includes a part which is different from the damping elements and is produced from a material of a brittleness which is greater than a brittleness of the tube piece.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Stefan Kleinewegen, Michael Te Uhle
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Patent number: 11916467Abstract: A slip ring system of an electrically excited dynamoelectric machine can be designed to be closed or open and includes a carrier segment configured to include a brush holder which includes a brush pocket for receiving a brush. The brush holder includes means for cooling the brush in the brush holder and/or for cooling the brush holder and has a surface-enlarging structure so as to enable a cooling air flow to be guided within the slip ring system and thereby cool the brush holder and/or brush pocket.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Herbert Binder, Daniel Friedl, Robert Gruber, Oliver Memminger, Andrej Raskopf, Klaus Schifferer
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Patent number: 11905925Abstract: A flange arrangement includes a power shaft, a flanged hub connected detachably to the power shaft, and a stop member configured to detachably hold the flanged hub on the power shaft and to exert a disassembly force on the flanged hub so as to be able to rotate about a rotation axis of the power shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Flender GmbHInventor: Dirk Schroer
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Publication number: 20240055952Abstract: A stator of an electromechanical transducer includes a winding system and a cooling system designed for through-flow of a cooling medium and including a nozzle through which the cooling medium flows during operation, such that the cooling medium flows out as an accelerated jet downstream of the nozzle. The nozzle is oriented such that part of the winding system is struck by the accelerated jet from the nozzle. A core includes cutouts for at least partial arrangement of winding sections of the winding system. The core includes a magnetically permeable body designed to include at least a first body and a second body which are arranged axially next to one another, with the first body being arranged in spaced-apart relationship from the second body to define an axial gap there between, with the cooling medium being combined in the axial gap from various flow paths guided in a parallel fashion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: Flender GmbHInventor: Günther Winkler
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Patent number: 11901782Abstract: A magnetically active unit of an electric machine with at least two poles includes a laminated core with slots, and at least one winding for each of the phases. The windings have an electric conductor which forms coil groups in the slots. The coils of the coil groups are formed with at least two sections of the electric conductors of at least one of the windings and are arranged so as to be electrically insulated from each other in the grooves. At least one first coil group of the coil groups of one of the windings has a first number of coils which deviates from a second number of coils of a second coil group of the coil groups of the same winding.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Robin Brenner, Dominik Kohlmeier, Manuel Oberneder, Norbert Schönbauer, Karl-Heinz Senninger
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Patent number: 11891981Abstract: A generator-gearbox arrangement for a wind turbine includes a generator having a stator and a rotor interacting with one another, a functional component arranged on an end side of the generator and including an extension which points toward the rotor, and a magnetic rail brake arrangement including component parts fastened to the extension. The magnetic rail brake arrangement is designed to apply a braking action which is based on an operating principle of electromagnetic attraction between the magnetic rail brake arrangement and at least one of the rotor and the functional component.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Flender GmbHInventor: Andreas Jöckel
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Publication number: 20240035560Abstract: A planetary transmission includes a transfer device for transferring a supply medium. First and second transmission parts rotate relative to one another, with the transfer device having an annular groove on a surface of the first transmission part or of the second transmission part. The transfer device has bores distributed over a periphery. The first transmission part includes a separate bush which points towards the second transmission part and has a sealing groove with a sealing ring axially on both sides of the annular groove. The bush is arranged rotationally fixed on a rest of the first transmission part and designed to float in an axial direction with sufficient play in order to tilt out of a coaxial relative position with respect to the first transmission part and/or to the second transmission part to the extent of a relative movability of the respective sealing ring within the associated sealing groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: FLORIAN HITPASS, CAROLIN TELAAR
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Patent number: 11885312Abstract: A wind turbine includes a dynamoelectric machine including a liquid-cooled stator and a rotor interacting with one another. The stator includes a magnetically conductive body and a winding system which is embedded in slots of the magnetically conductive body and which includes a main insulation arranged between a conductor of the winding system and a slot wall and including at least one recess provided in a cooling-channel impression of the main insulation to form at least one axial cooling channel extending between the main insulation and the slot wall, so that the at least one cooling channel borders the slot wall without insulation in direct contact with the slot wall. The winding system includes end windings which are also liquid-cooled. A can separates the stator and the rotor from one another and enables different cooling media for the stator and the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Claus Teringl, Michael Winklhofer
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Patent number: 11873796Abstract: A planetary gearbox for a wind power installation includes a planetary carrier having a first and second carrier cheeks, planetary gears mounted rotatably on the first and second carrier cheeks via bearing pins, respectively, an internal gear meshing with the planetary gears, with an assembly clearance being configured between a cheek external diameter of the first and second carrier cheeks and an internal diameter of the internal gear, and a planetary carrier spider configured to position the first and second carrier cheeks at a defined spacing with respect to one another. The planetary carrier spider has a radially outwardly pointing outer side which extends at a greater spaced-apart relation radially inward from a radially inner tip circle radius of an internal toothing system of the internal gear than the first and second carrier cheeks and which is arranged radially outside with respect to an internal diameter of the planetary gears.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: FLENDER GMBHInventors: Katrin Dietz, Pascal Hessling, Tim Vossschmidt
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Patent number: 11852190Abstract: A plain bearing bush includes a cylindrical main body having a first shell surface and a second shell surface. The first and second shell surfaces include a plurality of exchange bores for a lubricant. At least one of the exchange bores has a first diameter on the first shell surface and a second diameter on the second shell surface, with the second diameter being greater than the first diameter for an increase in a load-bearing capability of the plain bearing bush. Two of the exchange bores are arranged in axial spaced-apart relation and connected to one another by a pocket depression.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Philipp Leuer, Robert Prusak, Eugen Schlegel
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Publication number: 20230392579Abstract: A generator-gearbox arrangement for a wind turbine includes a generator having a stator and a rotor interacting with one another, a functional component arranged on an end side of the generator and including an extension which points toward the rotor, and a magnetic rail brake arrangement including component parts fastened to the extension. The magnetic rail brake arrangement is designed to apply a braking action which is based on an operating principle of electromagnetic attraction between the magnetic rail brake arrangement and at least one of the rotor and the functional component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventor: ANDREAS JÖCKEL
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Publication number: 20230366437Abstract: A coupling for attaching a transmission to a drive shaft includes a circumferential intermediate piece including a drive-side flange, an output-side flange which is axially connected fixedly to the drive-side flange, and longitudinal webs connecting the drive-side flange to the output-side flange and configured in one piece with the drive-side flange and with the output-side flange. Each longitudinal web is configured in one piece or in two pieces.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: DANIEL FLASWINKEL, ANDRE JANSEN
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Publication number: 20230369950Abstract: A device for deflecting a coil includes a preformed body including a first portion configured as a circular arc to rest on the coil for bending, and a second portion adjoining the first portion and configured as a chord to rest on the coil for bending, wherein the first portion and the second portion are interchangeable.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: NORBERT SCHÖNBAUER, Tobias STRASSINGER, Claus TERINGL, Michael WINKLHOFER
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Publication number: 20230369941Abstract: An electric machine includes a hollow-cylindrical stator and at least two receiving elements, each receiving element at least partially enclosing the stator in a circumferential direction along an inner coverage length and conjointly connected to the stator in the circumferential direction along an inner fastening length. A stator housing is conjointly connected to the receiving elements in the circumferential direction along the outer fastening length. The inner fastening length extends at most along 120° in the circumferential direction, and the outer fastening length extends at most along 200° in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: Daniel Friedl, THOMAS GARHAMMER, ROBERT GRUBER, MESAROS AKOS KECELI, OLIVER MEMMINGER, GÜNTHER ORTMEIER, KLAUS SCHIFFERER, LASLO TOLDI, ANATOLI VOGEL
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Publication number: 20230353002Abstract: A surface insulating material includes three or more individual layers that are stacked on top of one another. The surface insulating material has a longitudinal extent, a transverse extent and a radial extent, in such a way that the individual layers have different dimensions at least in the transverse extent.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: Artur Deutsch, NORBERT SCHÖNBAUER, MICHAEL WEGER
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Publication number: 20230340943Abstract: A rotor shaft assembly for a torque-transmitting connection of a gearbox unit to a generator unit includes an output shaft for the gearbox unit, a rotor shaft for the generator unit, and a curved tooth coupling designed to connect the output shaft and the rotor shaft to one another The curved tooth coupling includes a releasably fastened supporting element designed to axially position the curved tooth coupling and including a mating face to support an axial force of the curved tooth coupling, with the mating face being designed to slide on a corresponding support face of the output shaft or of the rotor shaft when the output shaft is tilted relative to the rotor shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventor: Ralf Martin Dinter
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Patent number: 11799257Abstract: A slip ring, in particular for use in a wind turbine, includes an axle extending in an axial direction and a contact region having a contact surface on a peripheral surface of the contact region and a recess extending in a tangential circumferential direction along the peripheral surface. The contact region includes an axial end face formed with an opening which communicates with the recess. The contact region includes three essentially cylindrical segments which define two covering segments and an intermediate segment arranged in a center between the two covering segment. Each of the two covering segments defines a radius which is larger than a radius of the intermediate segment so that a peripheral surface of the intermediate segment forms an underside of the recess. An insulating region is arranged adjacent to the contact region on the axle.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Herbert Binder, Robert Gruber, Oliver Memminger, Roman Svach
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Publication number: 20230318410Abstract: A dynamo-electric rotary machine includes a rotor defining an axis, a stator, and a can designed for arrangement in an air gap between the rotor and the stator in order to seal the stator and the rotor in relation to each other. The can has at least one section of average electrical conductivity in a range from 1 S/m to 10000 S/m in an axial and/or a tangential direction. The can is electrically conductively incorporated in an earthing system of the dynamo-electric machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: ANDREAS JÖCKEL, ROLAND ZEICHFÜSSL
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Patent number: 11777345Abstract: A stator of a directly driven wind power generator includes a stator support including flanges with bores and stator segments positioned on the flanges, when viewed in a circumferential direction. Each stator segment includes a segment support having recesses. At least two securing devices for each of the stator segments secure the stator segment to the flanges. Each securing device includes a bore part insertable in a corresponding one of the recesses, a shim, and an alignment pin insertable in a corresponding one of the bores of the flanges, so that the stator segment is positioned and secured vertically via the bore part and the alignment pin and via the shim to thereby realize a uniform air gap between the stator and a rotor of the wind power generator.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Attila Koeszegi, Andreas Lindmeier, Dominik Ratzisberger, Franz Xaver Michael Schober, Christoph Schwarzbauer, Lei Yue