Abstract: A miniature synchronous motor having a bell-shaped rotor and a damping body, freely mounted, but non-rotatable on the rotor shaft. The damping body being urged, at least substantially in a radial direction by a spring, the force of which also acts substantially equally for both bearings of the motor so as to reduce noise during operation.

Abstract: An improved small electric motor for use as a power source for toys, small electric instruments, and portable electric instruments, and a method for manufacturing rotors for such motor. The small electric motor is provided on a rotary shaft with a commutator provided in parallel and feeder brushes in resilient contact with the commutator. The commutator is fitted to the rotary shaft in a manner providing simplicity of assembly, adjustable positioning of the commutator on the rotary shaft, standardization of a magnet case, and favorable performance in the small motor.

Abstract: A pulse motor for clockworks and the like in which the rotor comprises two spaced-apart permanent magnetic disks mounted upon a common shaft and rotatable with respect to a stator. The stator comprises a respective pair of magnetic poles in the plane of each disk, the poles of the pair being interconnected by a shank and a coil wound upon the respective shanks, the coils lying on opposite sides of the rotor. The coils can be excited independently to cause the respective pair of poles to magnetically cooperate with the respective disk and rotate the motor in the forward or the reverse sense.

Abstract: A bipolar stepping motor includes, a single stator sheet, an air gap between the ends of the stator sheet, a rotor between the ends of the stator sheet, and a coil which encompasses a portion of the stator sheet. The stator sheet is of essentially annular configuration and is surrounded over a substantial portion of its periphery by a coil carrier. The coil is applied on the carrier in the form of a ring core winding. A carrier plate is attached to the stator sheet in the vicinity of the air gap. This plate carries a shaft of the rotor and serves as means for attaching the motor to another structure.

Abstract: An educational electric motor adapted to be easily assembled and disassembled, comprising a three-part case formed from a central magnetic body connected at each end with transparent front and rear covers. Tape or clamping members are used to connect together the three-part case. An assembled rotor may be easily fitted within the motor case to rotate therein. A current feeding member is removably secured to at least one of the covers. The motor may be readily assembled by children and the transparent components permit the underlying principles of electricity and operation to be readily grasped and learned.

Abstract: A miniature reversible motor comprising a rotor having a plurality of magnetic pole pairs, and a stator having a pole face opposite the periphery of the rotor. A magnetic member of high permeability magnetic material is positioned proximate the periphery of the rotor and magnetically couples with the magnetic poles of the rotor for determining a direction of rotation of the rotor. A positioning mechanism is operable for changing the position of the magnetic member relative to the periphery of the rotor to change the direction of rotation of the rotor determined by the relative position of the magnetic member and the periphery of the rotor.

Abstract: The coreless cylindrical armature has a cylindrical coil made of at least one coil unit which includes a plurality of lead wires. Each lead wire traverses at least twice between the peripheral edges of the coil cylinder as it makes one turn around the coil cylinder. The lead wires are regularly spaced angularly of the coil cylinder to provide a full pitch winding that is two layers thick throughout as a result of the winding, but for a respective plurality of apical regions marginally of each peripheral edge of the coil cylinder. Several ultimate dispositions of these apical regions are described.

Abstract: A miniature electric motor is disclosed wherein a synthetic bobbin or frame has a rotor inside of a central cylindrical cavity, the rotor being supported in bearings which include large diameter flanges bonded to the bobbin. The windings are disposed around the bearing flanges and in grooves whose bottom surfaces are tangential to the cylindrical cavity. The windings thus assist in holding the bearing flanges to the bobbin and form part of the motor framework. The angular bottom surfaces effect increase in the number of turns in the windings and effects an increase in the rotor diameter and thus in the motor torque.A ring yoke of high permeability and low remanence surrounds and is bonded to the bobbin. Attached to the inside wall of the yoke are two diametrically opposed soft iron pins located at an angle to the normal of axis of the field created by the windings to create poles for stopping the rotor at a predetermined position.

Abstract: An improved brush block assembly is shown for use within an electric motor wherein each terminal associated with the brush block functions as a terminal and, in addition, as a locating device for the brush block, a current path between the brush and terminal, and a latch for securing the brush block in the motor. The brush block assembly includes a cartridge subassembly having a latch receiving notch and a latching terminal subassembly for engaging the notch. The latching terminal subassembly incorporates the motor terminal in an insulated bushing. The arrangement allows the motor to be mechanically tested before the cartridge subassembly is snapped into the motor for final electrical checkout.

Abstract: A miniature two-phase stepping motor includes sheet metal punched or stamped pole pieces and electrical coil assemblies having injection molded coil forms. The coil forms are provided with alignment bosses or protuberances which extend through pilot openings formed in the sheet metal poles to assure and maintain accurate alignment of the poles and the motor sections. The motor bearings are similarly supported and piloted on alignment pins formed on the coil forms.

Abstract: A driving wheel is mounted on the output shaft of a step motor, and a driven wheel engaging with gear wheels on which pointers are set is driven by said driving wheel. The driving wheel and the drive wheel have respective peripheral portions effective to couple the driving wheel with the driven wheel to rotate the driven wheel as the driving wheel rotates of an angular interval of rotation, and for thereafter disengaging the driving member from the driven member.In order to fix the position of a pointer after the driving wheel has finished rotating the driven wheel, the reversal preventing mechanism acts on the said driven wheel or the driving wheel. The driving wheel is driven by a stepping motor having a rotor which intermittently rotates in one direction through a predetermined angular interval to a rest position. The driven wheel is in turn intermittently rotated by the driving wheel to intermittently change the position of the pointer.

Abstract: A stator has a pair of magnetic pole portions, and a rotor having N- and S-poles is disposed between the two magnetic portions. Each magnetic pole portion of the stator has two static magnetic poles and a cut-away portion or indent formed therebetween. The stator is quadripolar statically, and bipolar dynamically.

Abstract: A timepiece including two base plates opposite each other and defining a space therebetween, and having a gear train and an electro-mechanical converter for driving the gear train and both disposed in the space between the two base plates. The converter includes a stator comprised of a platelike member defining an intermediate plate portion positioned in the space between the two base plates. The intermediate plate portion supports gear train components and is isolated magnetically from the rest of the stator.

Abstract: A flat miniature dynamoelectric machine comprises a flat rotor with an assembled coreless coil, a commutator having an exposed portion for sliding contact with brushes and integrally carrying the rotor, a shaft on which the commutator is mounted together with the rotor, a housing including bearing means for rotatably supporting and housing the shaft together with the rotor and the commutator mounted thereon, one end of the shaft projecting externally of the housing, a magnet disposed within the housing in opposing relationship with the peripheral surface or end face of the rotor, electrically conductive brushes located within the housing for sliding contact with the exposed portion of the commutator, and a thrust bearing plate mounted on the housing in bearing engagement with the opposite end of the shaft. The thrust bearing plate facilitates close control over the mounting position of the shaft, thereby stabilizing the positional relationship between the various parts.

Abstract: A brush device for a miniature electric motor constructed with a brush holder made of a leaf spring having a pair of flaps for holding a commutator brush, which are opposed each other along the longitudinal direction of a flat surface part, and which are formed in an inwardly bent shape, a guide member for insertion of the commutator brush formed at a corner of each of the pair of flaps, and a fitting member for the brush holder onto the main body of the motor; and a commutator brush having a head part to be inserted and held between said pair of flaps provided along the side edges of the flat surface part of the brush holder.

Abstract: A flattened DC motor, in which a rotary armature having a coil assembly comprising a combination of at least two disc-shaped coils, each having radial segments, is disposed in the field of a fixed field permanent magnet. The brushes are in contact with an area of a cylindrical commutator where the fixed field permanent magnet overlaps, the commutator being electrically connected to the coil assembly and secured on the rotary shaft.

Abstract: A micro-miniature stepping motor suitable for driving the gear works of an electronic watch wherein low-frequency timing impulses derived from a high-frequency time base are applied to the stator coil of the motor to cause the rotor therof to index ninety degrees in response to each impulse. The rotor includes a square rotor plate and a stator plate parallel thereto, a shaft secured to the center of the rotor plate extending through a central opening in the stator plate. Mounted on the underside of the rotor plate at the corners thereof are four permanent magnet blocks with their poles in mutual opposition to form a magnetic circuit between the rotor and stator plates whose lines of flux bridge the air gap therebetween. The stator plate has a generally square formation whereby the magnet blocks on the rotor, in the absence of a torque-producing force, seek to orient themselves to a stable position of minimum reluctance.

Abstract: An improved dynamo-electric machine such as an electric motor is disclosed including a novel commutator configuration and novel means for aligning a first machine housing relative to a second machine housing. The commutator includes an insulating member having a first and a second end with an outwardly extending member having a plurality of apertures therein extending from the first end of the insulating member. A recess extends partially through the insulating member from the second end of the insulating member. A plurality of electrically conducting members each having a first and a second mounting portion are established about a substantially cylindrical surface of the insulating member with the first mounting portions of the electrically conducting members extending through the apertures in the insulating member. The remaining portions of the first mounting members are bent radially outwardly to provide mounting terminals for connection with the rotor coils.

Abstract: A high performance rotor for an electronic wristwatch step motor and method of forming same is provided. A rotor pinion has a high performance permanent magnet rotor mounted thereto. The permanent magnet rotor includes a brittle permanent magnet core, and a reinforcing plate, the combination of the permanent magnet core and reinforcing plate allowing the high performance magnetic rotor to be interference fit upon the rotor pinion to effect an improved rotor construction.

Abstract: A synchronous motor comprises a rotor of permanently magnetized high coercivity material and a stator formed of two metal plates having projecting imbricated poles which are placed between an induction coil and the rotor. The air gaps between the ends of the poles of one plate and the other plate are at most equal to one tenth the length of said poles and up to a maximum value of 1.2 mm, so as to increase the self-induction of the coil hence enabling a reduction of its resistance and a saving in the cost of the wire of the coil.

Abstract: A stepping motor for use in an electronic timepiece which has a permanent magnet rotor and a stator provided with a driving coil. The stator is comprised of stator pole pieces each having assymetric portions which provide primary and secondary magnetic paths, respectively, whereby two static equilibrium positions are provided. The rotor may be stable at either one of these static equilibrium positions by controlling the supply of two-phase pulses to the driving coil so that the rotor may be rotated in normal or reverse direction. SuThis invention relates in general to stepping motors and, more particularly, to a reversible stepping motor for use in an electronic timepiece.As is well known, stepping motors, also called pulse motors, are becoming increasing employed in industrial applications due to the introduction of digital pulse techniques. Typical one of these applications involves electronic timepieces having electro-mechanical timekeeping movements which are driven by the stepping motors.

Abstract: A small-sized direct current rotary electric appliance comprises a stator provided with a cylindrically shaped permanent magnet. A rotary armature rotates in the magnetic field of said permanent magnet, and brushes are fixedly provided on a part of said stator. The rotary armature is constructed with a rotor shaft, a soft magnetic core being fixedly provided on the rotor shaft with a plurality of winding continuously wound for a predetermined number of turns around the core in such a way that the portions of the windings located at both end surfaces of the core in the axial direction thereof constitute terminal connections.

Abstract: An ironless rotor of high accuracy is provided readily and simply by coiling an elongated conductor into a plurality of hexagonal windings with a predetermined thickness, wrapping the windings around a cylindrical core member in such a manner that any overlap of the windings does not exceed two layers, and shaping the windings into an integral cylindrical form. Such ironless rotor is applicable to miniature electric motors to enhance the efficiency of the latter.

Abstract: A micro motor for a timepiece comprises a curved magnetic core, a coil winding wound on the magnetic core, a stator connected to the magnetic core to define therewith a closed magnetic flux path and having an opening therein in which a rotor is rotatably disposed. The stator comprises a pair of stator pieces each connected at one end to a respective end portion of the curved magnetic core and the stator pieces have curved portions extending at least partly along the curvature of said curved magnetic core to thereby form a compact overall assembly.

Abstract: A synchronous micrometer wherein the rotor has a permanent magnet structure. This permanent magnet structure is surrounded by a cylindrical stator component of soft magnetic material formed with elongated axially extending cutouts which except for their opposed ends are of substantially elliptical configuration to define between themselves elongated axially extending wall portions of the cylindrical stator component which are of a substantially hourglass configuration. To one end of this cylindrical stator component is fixed a transverse wall which engages a transverse wall of a casing which houses a coil structure which coaxially surrounds the cylindrical stator component as well as the permanent magnet rotor.

Abstract: An electric micro motor for a timepiece comprises a rotor having a portion formed of a permanent magnet and a pair of magnetic stator pieces disposed in spaced-apart relationship with the rotor disposed therebetween. A pair of non-magnetic coupling members couple together the stator pieces and rotatably support the rotor. The rotor-stator pieces-coupling members assembly is contained within a magnetic cylinder so as to shield the micro motor from external magnetic noise.

Abstract: A disclosure is made of an electric motor assembly in which a motor casing containing a motor and a battery casing housing one or more batteries are coupled in a manner so that a motor energizing circuit is turned on or off by relative rotational displacement between said two casings and the motor is fixed within said motor case by means of a terminal or contact strip. Further disclosed are raised ridges or grooves provided on said battery casing as means of supporting the whole assembly of said electric driving device, a method of immovably fixing said battery casing where said motor casing is made free for rotational displacement, a method of facilitating rotational displacement of said battery casing where said motor casing is immovably fixed, and also a switching mechanism.

Abstract: In a case for a small-sized motor, there are provided projections and convex portions in the cylindrical portion of the case for holding permanent magnets in the case without using any binding agent, springs or screws.

Abstract: An improved quartz crystal timepiece transducer wherein torque of the rotor is maximized, and energy consumption is reduced is provided. The transducer includes a permanent magnet rotor having two opposite polarity poles, the rotor being formed with respect to the mechanical axis to define at least two concentric symmetrical equal radii surfaces. Two stator poles have a common coil wrapped therearound for receiving a timekeeping drive signal applied thereto. Both stator poles have symmetrical equal radii semicircular stator surfaces surrounding the rotor, the radii of the stator surfaces having a specific relationship therebetween, and each of the stator poles is eccentrically disposed with respect to the rotor mechanical axis and each other.

Abstract: A miniature electric motor with a rotor having pole teeth simultaneously magnetizable in opposite polarities upon energization of an exciting coil, being provided with high magnetic reluctance grooves for magnetically separating each pole tooth from the adjacent ones.

Abstract: A step motor particularly suited for use in a quartz crystal electronic timepiece and adapted to minimize adjustment and fixing of the step motor is provided. The step motor includes a coil adapted to receive a timekeeping signal of a predetermined frequency. A low permeable reference member having two high permeable stator yokes integrally mounted thereto is provided, said yokes being electrically coupled to said coil to be magnetized thereby in a first and second magnetic orientation in response to the application of the timekeeping signal to the coil. A permanent magnet rotor is surrounded by the stator yokes, the rotor being stepped in response to each change in the magnetic orientation of the stator yokes.

Abstract: A miniature self-starting electric motor includes a rotor shaft rotatably disposed in a casing. Two rotors fixed to said rotor shaft each have a circular body portion of soft magnetic material, said circular body portion having a periphery with pole teeth extending therefrom and spaced from each other at equal angular spacings. Two exciting coils each are disposed to face the pole teeth. Two magnets each provide radially north and south poles alternating at an equal angle with axially same polarities as the other magnet and facing the pole teeth, the number of poles on each permanent magnet being an even multiple of the number of pole teeth. The two rotors are in an opposite relation each other, the pole teeth of one of said two rotors being staggered from the pole teeth of the other by a predetermined electric angle. A condenser is selectively connectible to either one of said two exciting coils. Such miniature self-starting motor rotates reliably in a predetermined direction at the time of starting.