Patent ID: 7898128

Claim:
A forced cooling rotary electric machine comprising: a rotor formed on a rotating shaft; a stator provided around an outer periphery of the rotor with a gap therefrom, said stator having a stator core formed by stacking silicon steel plates along a longitudinal direction of the rotating shaft, a stator winding incorporated in winding grooves formed in the stator core, and wedges having a trapezoidal cross section and inserted in opening sides of the winding grooves to fix the stator winding in the winding grooves, said stator core being formed with a plurality of air ducts in a stacking direction of the silicon steel plates, in which air ducts a cooling gas is forcedly caused to flow, said air ducts being provided at equal intervals in the stacking direction of stacked steel plates; a plurality of partition walls being provided at equal intervals in the stacking direction of the stacked steel plates on an outer peripheral side of the stator core to form a plurality of ventilation sections, the cooling gas being caused to flow in the adjacent ones of the ventilation sections in reverse directions to each other, said wedges being formed to have the trapezoidal cross section and including first wedges formed with ventilation grooves at positions opposed to the air ducts and second wedges having no ventilation grooves, said ventilation grooves being formed to have the same size in a direction of the rotary shaft as that of said air ducts in a direction of the rotary shaft and said wedges formed with the ventilation grooves being formed to have at parts of the ventilation grooves the same size in a peripheral direction of the rotary shaft as a width of said winding grooves, so that the wedges present no resistance member facing the air ducts; and flow path resistance regulating means for making more uniform the flow path resistances of flow paths for the cooling gas being formed by arranging the wedges formed with ventilation grooves on said air ducts in long flow paths for the cooling gas through the ventilation sections and the wedges having no ventilation grooves on said air ducts in short flow paths for the cooling gas.