Patents Assigned to Mabuchi Motor Co. Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11901780
    Abstract: A resolver includes a first coil group and a second coil group. The first coil group has a first exciting coil and a first detecting coil that have a multiplication factor of angle of nX (where n is a natural number equal to or greater than three), are placed coaxially with the axis of rotation of the rotor, and each have a ring shape. The second coil group has a second exciting coil and a second detecting coil that have a multiplication factor of angle of (n?1)×, are placed coaxially with the axis of rotation of the rotor, and each have a ring shape. Furthermore, the first coil group and the second coil group are provided at positions different in a radial direction from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Matsunawa
  • Patent number: 11892071
    Abstract: A bearing unit includes: a thrust damper extendable in an axial direction of a shaft placed in a gearbox, the movement of which toward one side in the axial direction is regulated; a shaft receiver component held by the thrust damper on the other side of the thrust damper in the axial direction; a metal holder that holds the shaft receiver component in such a manner as to be detachable in the axial direction; and an oilless metal held by the metal holder and placed on the other side of the shaft receiver component, in which the thrust damper, the shaft receiver component, the metal holder, and the oilless metal are integrated all together before being incorporated into the gearbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11888360
    Abstract: A brush motor includes: a rotor core provided in a rotor; s teeth provided in the rotor core; s concentrated-winding coils with electric wires being respectively wound around the teeth; a commutator provided on the rotor in a relatively non-rotatable manner; c commutator pieces provided in the commutator and connected to the coils; p pairs of magnet magnetic poles provided on a stator and arranged to face the teeth; and a brush that is brought into sliding contact with the commutator pieces to supply a current to the coils, in which 0.5<p/s<1 and s<c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadayuki Wakita
  • Patent number: 11757315
    Abstract: A rotor applied to an inner rotor brushless motor includes: a rotor core having a laminate of a plurality of annular thin plate-shaped core pieces, the rotor core being configured to rotate together with a shaft in an integrated manner; a cylindrical resin magnet mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core via a gap; a groove-shaped adhesive admission portion in a straight line along the entire length of the rotor core in an axial direction thereof, the adhesive admission portion being recessed into the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core; and an adhesive configured to bond and fix the rotor core and the magnet. The adhesive is filled in an entire adhesive allowance having both of the gap and the adhesive admission portion between the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core and an inner peripheral surface of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Shiraki, Katsuhito Nishizawa, Shou Kubota, Yuhei Ito
  • Patent number: 11715991
    Abstract: To provide a brushless motor with a simple configuration, which has accomplished size reduction. An inner rotor brushless motor having a rotor in a center of a cylindrical stator includes: three bus bars on one end side of the stator in an axial direction thereof, the bus bars connecting three phase coils provided to the stator on a phase-by-phase basis; a bottomed tubular connector portion adjacent to a housing that houses the stator and the rotor; a plurality of connector terminals fixed, penetrating a bottom portion of the connector portion, the plurality of connector terminals being exposed to an internal space of the connector portion; and a board stretching from the one end side of the stator in the axial direction to the bottom portion side of the connector portion, the board being configured to electrically connect an end of each of the bus bars and the penetrating connector terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Shiraki, Katsuhito Nishizawa, Shou Kubota, Takuya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11578784
    Abstract: A reduction gear configured to decelerate and output rotation of a motor includes two-stage planetary gear mechanisms that are provided side by side in an axial direction of the motor and are each configured of helical gears, and a case made of resin and formed into a cylindrical shape, the case incorporating the two-stage planetary gear mechanisms. At least one of an inner engagement ratio of a sun gear and a pinion gear of the planetary gear mechanism in a first stage and an outer engagement ratio of the pinion gear and a ring gear of the planetary gear mechanism in the first stage is 3.0 or more, and both the inner engagement ratio and the outer engagement ratio are larger than an engagement ratio of the planetary gear mechanism in a second stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Suwa, Takao Mitsumizo
  • Patent number: 11525503
    Abstract: A reduction gear configured to decelerate and output rotation of a motor by two-stage planetary gear mechanisms disposed side by side in an axial direction includes: a case made of resin, the case being formed into a cylindrical shape in which the two-stage planetary gear mechanisms are incorporated, and having at least one of a lid portion and a bottom portion provided at each of both axial ends; and a reinforcing component that is formed of a material having a Young's modulus higher than a Young's modulus of a material of the case. The reinforcing component extends along at least a part of an inner peripheral surface in an axial central portion of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Suwa, Takao Mitsumizo
  • Patent number: 11489403
    Abstract: A motor includes a case; and a partition that is fitted into the case and has an easily deformable part formed on an outer peripheral surface for dispersing and dissipating vibration transmitted between the case and the partition. A space is formed in the easily deformable part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Kuwano, Takashi Muramoto
  • Patent number: 11303189
    Abstract: A worm wheel is installed inside a wheel accommodation chamber of a body casing; a motor is fastened by screws from the right side perpendicular to the axis line of the worm wheel, thus forming a motor fastening part; and a worm fixed to an output shaft of the motor is engaged with the worm wheel. A board accommodation chamber is formed so as to be adjacent to the right of the wheel accommodation chamber, and a control board is inserted inside the board accommodation chamber from below. The control board is disposed so as to be inclined in a direction in which the upper end of the control board is displaced toward the wheel accommodation chamber from an erect attitude perpendicular to the axis line of the output shaft of the motor, and thus the upper end is separated from the motor fastening part in the direction of the axis line of the output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junya Kurata, Satoshi Kikuchi, Yoshihiro Hanazawa
  • Patent number: 11277057
    Abstract: An annular sensor magnet to be fixed to a motor shaft by a press-fit includes an annular portion having magnetic poles alternately formed in an outer peripheral portion. The annular sensor magnet also includes a fixing portion extending from an inner peripheral portion of the annular portion toward a center to support and fix the motor shaft having been press-fit, and a stress reducing portion for reducing stress caused in a contact portion of the fixing portion that contacts the motor shaft when the motor shaft is press-fit onto the fixing portion. The sensor magnet includes a bonded magnet in which a magnetic material is dispersed in a plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Satoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11165313
    Abstract: Provided is a decelerator-equipped motor unit which can achieve cost reductions in the control board and improvement of both mechanical and electrical reliability through a particular arrangement of elements on the board, thereby achieving a smaller size by realizing an appropriate board shape without increasing the size of the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD., CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Junya Kurata, Satoshi Kikuchi, Bjoern Schmitz, Erwin Kessler, Gebhard Hopfmueller
  • Publication number: 20210239203
    Abstract: A reduction gear configured to decelerate and output rotation of a motor by two-stage planetary gear mechanisms disposed side by side in an axial direction includes: a case made of resin, the case being formed into a cylindrical shape in which the two-stage planetary gear mechanisms are incorporated, and having at least one of a lid portion and a bottom portion provided at each of both axial ends; and a reinforcing component that is formed of a material having a Young's modulus higher than a Young's modulus of a material of the case. The reinforcing component extends along at least a part of an inner peripheral surface in an axial central portion of the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu SUWA, Takao MITSUMIZO
  • Publication number: 20210239187
    Abstract: A reduction gear configured to decelerate and output rotation of a motor includes two-stage planetary gear mechanisms that are provided side by side in an axial direction of the motor and are each configured of helical gears, and a case made of resin and formed into a cylindrical shape, the case incorporating the two-stage planetary gear mechanisms. At least one of an inner engagement ratio of a sun gear and a pinion gear of the planetary gear mechanism in a first stage and an outer engagement ratio of the pinion gear and a ring gear of the planetary gear mechanism in the first stage is 3.0 or more, and both the inner engagement ratio and the outer engagement ratio are larger than an engagement ratio of the planetary gear mechanism in a second stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu SUWA, Takao MITSUMIZO
  • Publication number: 20210218320
    Abstract: A rotor is provided with: a rotor core which rotates integrally with a shaft and has a plurality of radially extending teeth; windings including coil portions wound around the teeth; a commutator that is attached to the rotor core and integrally rotates with the shaft, the commutator including metal commutator segments having contact portions with which precious metal brushes make sliding contact, and a plurality of terminals to which the windings are bonded; elements which include capacitors and respectively electrically connecting terminals to which both ends of the coil portions of the same phase are connected; and a coating layer formed of an oil applied to the contact portions. A motor includes this rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro HASHIMOTO, Hideyuki UZAWA, Keiji NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11056988
    Abstract: A waveform control unit outputs a signal for driving a brushless DC motor by intermediate value energization to a waveform output unit, and outputs a signal for driving a brushless DC motor by sine wave energization to the waveform output unit when the signal in which the rotation position of the rotation reference is detected is acquired from the element, and the waveform control unit applies voltage corresponding to a sine value of an angle of a winding of one phase of n-phase windings when the brushless DC motor is to be driven by intermediate value energization, and outputs a signal for applying voltage corresponding to a sine value of an angle having similar phase difference as the sine wave energization drive with respect to the angle to the rest of the windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shunpei Fujii
  • Patent number: 11025143
    Abstract: A method includes forming a first wire layer wound on the insulator and a second wire layer wound on the first wire layer by winding the wire on the insulator. If (L1+D)tan(?/2)cos(?/2)?A cos(?/2)>D, the first wire layer is formed by winding the wire on an upper surface of the step portion, where A is B/2+(1+?3/2)D, B is a width of the insulator, D is a wire diameter, ? is an angle formed by the central axes of circumferentially adjacent teeth, L1 is a distance from a central axis of the stator to an end of the upper surface of the step portion on the inner side in the radial direction, and L2 is a distance from the central axis of the stator to an end of the upper surface of the step portion on the outer side in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuya Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 10895284
    Abstract: A bearing unit includes: an impregnated bearing that rotatably supports a shaft of a rotor; a storage part which is formed in a manner that an end surface of a housing incorporating the rotor in an axial direction becomes convex toward an outer side and which stores the impregnated bearing in a non-rotatable manner; and an oil return washer which is placed to face an end surface of the impregnated bearing stored in the storage part and which integrally rotates with the shaft. The storage part has a bottom tubular shape, and includes an inner surface and a bottom surface, and the oil return washer is placed in a manner that the facing surface overlaps with the inner surface of the storage part when viewed from a radial direction, and includes a circulation part that receives oil leaked from the impregnated bearing and returns the oil to the impregnated bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Iio, Yoshinobu Katsuta, Satoshi Shimuzu
  • Patent number: 10895314
    Abstract: A gear box includes a gear box body, and a terminal which is integrated with the gear box body. The gear box body includes a storage portion which stores a gear, a motor insertion portion, recessed in an attachment surface of a motor, and a connector connection portion on the same side as the motor insertion portion with respect to a rotation center of the gear and is open in a direction different from the motor insertion portion. The terminal includes the connector terminal which is exposed to the inside of the connector connection portion, a motor feeding portion which is exposed to the inside of the motor insertion portion, a connecting portion which is in the gear box body and connects the connector terminal and the motor feeding portion, and a fixing tab extending from the connecting portion and exposed to the inside of the motor insertion portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Takeda
  • Publication number: 20200295621
    Abstract: A motor includes a case; and a partition that is fitted into the case and has an easily deformable part formed on an outer peripheral surface for dispersing and dissipating vibration transmitted between the case and the partition. A space is formed in the easily deformable part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiro KUWANO, Takashi MURAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200287484
    Abstract: A waveform control unit outputs a signal for driving a brushless DC motor by intermediate value energization to a waveform output unit, and outputs a signal for driving a brushless DC motor by sine wave energization to the waveform output unit when the signal in which the rotation position of the rotation reference is detected is acquired from the element, and the waveform control unit applies voltage corresponding to a sine value of an angle of a winding of one phase of n-phase windings when the brushless DC motor is to be driven by intermediate value energization, and outputs a signal for applying voltage corresponding to a sine value of an angle having similar phase difference as the sine wave energization drive with respect to the angle to the rest of the windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shunpei FUJII