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Title: Protective arrangement for a plug-connected electric motor sealed against pressure, vapors and radiation

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6410180

An electric motor construction comprises a housing with a motor rotor rotatably mounted in the housing with stator windings disposed in the housing around the rotor. The housing has a wall with an opening therein and a terminal box plug connector for the stator windings is mounted on the wall around the opening and includes an upper and a lower interengageable connector parts. A sealing gasket disposed between the parts which may be plug interconnected and held into position by a snap action lock. The stator windings have lead wires leading from the housing into the connector part and a continuous sealing compound resistant to humidity, vapors and gamma radiation embeds the stator windings and the lead wires and extends from the housing into the connector parts.

Assignee:
Elektro-Mechanik GmbH (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
Patent Number(s):
US 4451750
OSTI ID:
6410180
Resource Relation:
Patent Priority Date: Priority date 29 Jan 1982, Germany, Federal Republic of (F.R. Germany); Other Information: PAT-APPL-344042
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English