| 摘要 |
A method of and a device for protecting an electric motor (4) in a pod unit (1) for propulsion of marine vessels against shaft bending shocks when the blades (2) of the pod propeller hit ice blocks or other hard objects, said motor (4) having a drive shaft (3), a rotor (41) and a stator (42), said shocks tending to momentarily bend the drive shaft (3) to such an extent that the rotor (41) will come into contact with the stator (42). In accordance with the present invention, the rotor (41) is prevented from coming in detrimental contact with the stator (42) by providing at least two members (61, 62), which together form a radial plain bearing (6) having mating arcuate bearing surfaces (611 and 621, respectively), which during normal operation of the motor (4) are spaced from one another by a gap and come in contact with one another only at extreme loads with short durations. One of the members (61, 62) is an inner member (61) having a circular circumference that constitutes one (611) of the bearing surfaces (611, 621). The arcuate bearing surface (611) of the inner member (61) is coaxial with the rotor (41) and rotary therewith, and at least one of the other members is an outer member (62), which fixed in relation to the stator (42) and has its arcuate bearing surface (621) coaxial there with. |
