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Abstract

A motor, generator, or other machine with an improved rotor and stator structure providing radial slots in the rotor and stator can create an improved cooling scheme, or airflow pattern. Such a cooling scheme can be adapted for both totally enclosed and open drip proof motors, generators, and other machines easily, such that the two types of machines may share manufacturing facilities. The improved airflow pattern can provide for a cooling material to first flow in an axial direction along the axis of the rotor, then in a radial direction from the center of the machine outward, then again in an axial direction, and finally in a radial direction. At the end of the airflow pattern, in totally enclosed machines, the cooling material may flow radially inwards and begin the cycle again, whereas in open drip proof machines, the cooling material may flow radially outward again and exit the machine.

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