Patents Assigned to Bühler Motor GmbH
  • Publication number: 20130320802
    Abstract: A claw-pole motor for driving a centrifugal pump; consisting of stator laminations in the form of annular discs with claw poles adjoining said stator laminations, which claw poles are arranged opposite permanent-magnet poles of a rotor, a ring-shaped winding and an insulating body, which is arranged between the stator laminations and the winding, and a magnetic return path ring, which is arranged radially around the winding and the stator laminations and bears fixedly against the stator laminations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: BÜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventors: Olai Ihle, Klaus Weiske
  • Publication number: 20130266462
    Abstract: A pump with an integral, electronically commutated, direct-current motor (2) with permanent magnetic inner rotor disposed in a wet chamber, which forms with a turbine pump wheel (22) a compact, structural pump-rotor unit (3), a claw-pole stator (9) positioned in a dry chamber (4), the claw-pole stator (9) having four claw-pole plates (6, 6?) made of a soft magnetic material, a ring-shaped winding (12) and a claw-pole stator (9) including a soft magnetic back-iron ring (13) mounted on the claw-pole plates(6, 6?) and disposed around the winding (12) and a separating can (10), which separates the dry chamber from the wet chamber (5), characterized in that the claw-pole plates (6, 6?) and additional claw-pole plates (66, 66?) are stamped and bent together, in which a plate strip for the additional claw-pole plates (66, 66?) contains a central borehole from a previous work step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Bernreuther, Thomas Peterreins
  • Patent number: 8398384
    Abstract: A rotary pump with a plastic pump housing, that can be processed by injection molding, with a first housing part defining a pump space, which is connected to a second intermediate housing part accommodating an electric motor with a wound core stator. The rotary pump includes a plastic split core, the wound claw pole stator being mounted on the split core and a permanent magnetic rotor being mounted to rotate within the split core. A plastic motor housing part defines a motor space, wherein at least three axial and parallel split core ribs are provided between the split core and the claw pole stator, the ribs being distributed about the periphery of the split core at predetermined angles relative to each other. A return ring has first and second end sections, the return ring being connected to the wound claw pole stator, so that the first and second end sections are welded to each other. The stator is press-fit onto the split core via the ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Peterreins, Achim Brunner, Bernd Frühwald, Armin Suttner-Reimann, Ramona Kiesel, Gerd Pecher, Christian Schatz, Ingrid Späth
  • Patent number: 8310838
    Abstract: An electric drive (1) with a circuit board (2), having conductor tracks (3) and contact openings (4) with plated through-holes (5) and equipped with electronic components (6), the circuit board (2) being coated with a protective layer (7) of insulating material, and press-fit contacts (8) are inserted into the contact openings (4) and in electrical contact areas (9) within the contact openings (4) electrical contact exists between a press-fit contact (8) and the plated through-hole (5) of the contact opening (4). The task of the invention is to reliably protect circuit boards of electric drives exposed to moisture and other chemical environmental effects and contact them economically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Kellermann
  • Patent number: 8303268
    Abstract: A rotary pump (1) with a multipart pump housing (4), comprising a suction connector (6) and a pressure connector (7), a pump impeller (5) mounted on a fixed shaft (3), the pump rotor (5) being designed as a permanent magnetic rotor cooperating with an electromagnetic stator. The task of the invention in a rotary pump is to achieve excellent efficiency in a compact design. The rotary pump is also supposed to guarantee high lifetime and improved heat removal. This task is solved according to the invention in that the shaft (3) is firmly connected to a first pump housing (2), referred to as pump head, which includes the suction connector (6) or is connected to it, the shaft (3) forming an axis of symmetry to an inside wall area of pump head (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Michael John Werson, Colin Richard French
  • Patent number: 8282367
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump with an existing pump housing made of plastic material that can be processed through injection molding, the pump housing having a first housing section featuring a suction nozzle and a pressure nozzle, a second housing section supporting an electronically commutated DC motor and a split case, a motor housing section that closes a dry chamber separated from a wet chamber by the split case in which a stator and electronic components are arranged, and a permanent magnet rotor that is mounted in the wet chamber in such a way that it can rotate, thereby driving a pump impeller that reaches into the pump chamber. The electronic components are arranged on an electronic circuit board parallel to a base of the split case. The electronic circuit board is in heat conducting contact with the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Olai Ihle, Thomas Peterreins, Helmut Schmidt, Armin Suttner-Reimann
  • Patent number: 8203242
    Abstract: An electrically commutated DC motor (1) for a liquid pump (2) with a pump housing (3) with a suction connector (4) and a pressure connector (5) for connection to a hydraulic circuit, an essentially disk-like pump rotor (6) mounted to rotate in the pump housing, consisting of an impeller (7) with several pump vanes and a permanent magnet (8), a partition (11) separating a pump space (9) from a dry space (10), the partition being arranged in an axial gap (12) between the pump rotor (6) and several axially aligned stator poles (14), each provided with an insulation element (15) and stator windings (16). The task of the present invention is to configure a DC motor, so that it can be installed simply and reliably, is designed particularly robust and therefore has very high lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Olai Ihle, Georg Bernreuther, Klaus Weiske
  • Patent number: 8198780
    Abstract: A stator (10) for an electronically commutated DC motor with a number of stator poles (1) formed as individual parts, consisting of a pole core (25), pole shoes (26) and return sections (27), in which the return sections (27) of the stator poles (1) have intermeshing profiles, on which they lie against each other, so that the return sections form a hollow cylindrical return (35) with each other, in which the pole cores (25) connect to the return sections (27) directed radially inward. The individual stator poles are each provided with an insulation and a winding, and the wound stator poles (1) are held together by a retaining part that does not serve as motor housing. The task of the present invention is to provide a stator for an electrically commutated DC motor, which can be mounted simply and reliably, and which facilitates assembly of the stator in the motor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Guttenberger, Armin Suttner-Reimann
  • Patent number: 8174157
    Abstract: An electrically commutated DC motor (1) for a liquid pump (2) with a pump housing (3) with a suction connector (4) and a pressure connector (5) for connection to a hydraulic circuit, an essentially disk-like pump rotor (6) mounted to rotate in the pump housing, consisting of an impeller (7) with several pump vanes and a permanent magnet (8), a partition (11) separating a pump space (9) from a dry space (10), in which the partition is arranged in an axial gap (12) between the pump rotor (6) and several axially aligned wound stator poles (14) of the DC motor. The present invention configures a DC motor, so that it can be installed simply and reliably, is designed particularly robust and therefore has a very long operating lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Olai Ihle, Georg Bernreuther, Klaus Weiske
  • Patent number: 8142321
    Abstract: A control drive, consisting of an electric motor and a planetary gear mechanism flush with the electric motor on the same axis of symmetry, comprising a ring gear, a planet carrier and three planet gears mounted on the planet carrier, the planet gears each having a front surface in the assembly direction in the area of their external teeth and the ring gear in the region of its internal teeth having three angle areas assigned to the planet gears of its end opposite the assembly direction in a defined angle position of the planet carrier to ring gear. The task of the present invention is to ensure that an economical and time-decoupled simple and rapid assembly of the three planet gears in the ring gear is possible without increasing the manufacturing expense on this account, in which only slight changes to existing forms are necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Guttenberger, Thomas Schreiber
  • Patent number: 8024991
    Abstract: An actuator, especially for seat adjusting devices with at least one electrical engine having subordinated reduction gear and a disconnecting device for manual operation. The generic actuator is provided with a disconnecting device that can be used in all operating processes in a large number of different applications and that guarantees reliable functioning of the disconnecting device without being over-dimensioned and thus uneconomical. The disconnecting device has a coupling insertion spring which determines the release force of the disconnecting device and a reset spring is provided which resets an actuating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Buehler Motor GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Weber
  • Patent number: 8002522
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump comprising a pump housing made of injection-molded plastics with a first housing part, which is designed as a single piece with a suction connection and a pressure connection, and comprises a sealing area, by means of which said first housing part is joined in a liquid-tight manner to a second housing part, that receives an electric motor, and a motor housing part. In this centrifugal pump, very good leak tightness is achieved with minimum number of parts, minimum weight and minimum assembly costs with universal applicability without impairing the visual overall impression of the centrifugal pump. This objective is achieved in that the second housing part is made of a material that is permeable to laser light of a wavelength or a wavelength range, and the first housing part is made of a material that absorbs the same laser light, and the first housing part and the second housing part are heat-sealed to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Olai Ihle, Thomas Peterreins, Helmut Schmidt, Armin Suttner-Reimann
  • Patent number: 7969060
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor comprising a permanent magnet rotor, which is supported rotationally about a central axis, a wound stator having a cylinder ring-shaped stator winding, claw poles, which are disposed perpendicularly to ring disc-shaped stator plates and around the central axis, and a cylinder jacket-shaped yoke ring, the length of the claw poles in the axially parallel direction being clearly greater than half the inner diameter of the stator. It is the object of the invention to provide an electric motor, in which the stator is composed of the least number of components, requires simple assembly and has a robust structure and optimum efficiency, thereby enabling greater design flexibility, usability of installation space and thus an economic construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Buehler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Olai Ihle, Thomas Peterreins
  • Patent number: 7880351
    Abstract: A drive with an electric motor, a housing and a direction-dependent brake, which includes a driver splined to a motor shaft, a drive output coupled freely pivotable around a small angle and shape-mated with the driver, several clamping devices and a clamping ring, in which the clamping devices cooperate with the clamping ring so that the brake conveys a torque from the electric motor to the driver output and brakes a back-driving torque of the drive output. The task of the invention is to present a brake in which no static redundancy occurs, which is simple to construct and in which no abrupt blocking is possible. This task is solved according to the invention in that the clamping ring is connected radially movable to the housing, a gearbox or a part attached to the housing so that the clamping ring after overcoming a defined force can be moved at least slightly radially by a clamping device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Buehler Motor GmbH
    Inventor: Juergen Strueber
  • Patent number: 7718951
    Abstract: An encoder arrangement of a direct current motor, having an encoder housing, an encoder disk, a circuit board arranged perpendicular in reference to an motor shaft with an optic sensor encompassing the encoder disk in a U-shaped manner, and a connection plug aligned parallel to the motor shaft. The encoder arrangement allows a simple, economical, reliable, and precise assembly, requiring little construction space, and protecting the encoder arrangement from contaminations. The circuit board is provided with accepting slots for connectors, with contact surfaces of the circuit board being arranged partially around the accepting slots and an electric contact is made between the connectors and the contract surfaces. The encoder housing comprises an encoder housing ring and an encoder housing lid. The encoder housing ring is provided with a radial recess, which is arranged in the area of the connector plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Buehler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Scharrer, Todd Wooten
  • Patent number: 7712831
    Abstract: A vehicle seat, an adjusting system and a method for moving at least one vehicle seat arranged in a vehicle cabin, particularly an aircraft seat, comprising seat components that are coupled or guided together, such as a seat part, a backrest and a leg rest, the location and/or inclination of which can be adjusted by means of at least one or more adjusting units. The adjusting system allows a separation of the basic functions from driving devices, with an electronic device for collision-free movement and for adjusting custom-designed functions and facilitating the adaptation of the custom-designed functions. The movement sequences and movements of the respective individual seat components and the seat components in relation to one another and the movements of the components or seats within an environment or group of seats are accomplished by means of a movement model in a coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Abt, Arno Schieweck, Wolfgang Troelenberg
  • Patent number: 7692355
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor having a permanent magnetic rotor supported in a rotatable fashion around a central axis, a wound stator with a cylindrical stator winding, claw poles, perpendicular in reference to the disc-shaped stator plates and arranged around the central axis, and a tubular return ring connected to the stator plates free from play. The object of the invention is to provide an electric motor, in which the stator is composed from as few parts as possible, with its assembly being simple, its construction being robust, and being provided with an optimum effectiveness, allowing a great freedom of design and space used and thus an economical structure. This object is attained according to the invention in the disc-shaped stator plates being in one piece with the claw poles and being calked to the return ring with the disc-shaped stator plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Buehler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Olai Ihle, Thomas Peterreins, Christian Zimmerer, Paul Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 7579728
    Abstract: An electric drive for an electric motor. The electric drive is made up of components consisting of a brush holder plate and a bearing plate which are interconnected via at least one snap-on connector with an expandable catch means that is disposed on an external area of an electric motor, a drive motor, or a positioning drive in such a manner that it projects out. The electric drive can be securely mounted and handled in an economical manner without additional components and without complicated manufacturing equipment. This objective is accomplished by the fact that the expandable catch means is protected by a protective device against unintentional expansion of the catch means and thus loosening of the snap-on connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Buehler Motor GmbH
    Inventor: Richard Guttenberger
  • Patent number: 7573169
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor having a shaft, a hollow cylindrical permanent magnet and an elastic connecting medium between the shaft and the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is arranged co-axially around the shaft to ensure that the permanent magnet is mounted securely, that it is not damaged during large temperature fluctuations, and that it is not deflected impermissibly from the axis of rotation in case of heavy radial load. A simple installation process uses a mechanical connection between the shaft and the permanent magnet. This task is performed by virtue of the fact that an elastic connecting medium is arranged along the periphery of the shaft at several first areas in which the distance between the shaft and the permanent magnet is enlarged. These first areas are separated from the second areas in which the distance between the shaft and the permanent magnet is minimized but not zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Buehler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Olai Ihle, Thomas Peterreins, Helmut Schmidt, Armin Suttner-Reimann
  • Patent number: 7394176
    Abstract: An electric drive (1) with a motor housing (16), a bearing plate (4), an electrically insulating brush holder plate (3) with formed-on plug housing (11), a printed circuit board (13) with plug lugs 14 which project through plug recesses of the brush holder plate (3) into the plug housing (11), where the brush holder plate (3) serves as a carrier for the printed circuit board (13). The objective of the invention is to present an electric drive which can be securely mounted and handled in an economical manner in which many electric and electronic components are accommodated in a space-saving manner and which has good interference suppression characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Buehler Motor GmbH
    Inventor: Richard Guttenberger