Abstract: A miniature motor with worm reduction gear outputting the revolution of a miniature motor via a worm reduction gear consisting of a worm and a worm wheel, in which the tooth surface of the worm is roughened into a stain finish, and then subjected to a surface treatment to improve wear resistance.

Abstract: A method for winding coils on an armature for miniature motor which typically comprise an armature iron core of a multi-pole construction, having a plurality of coils wound thereon, a commutator disposed on an insulating cylinder fixedly fitted to a motor shaft, and ends of lead wires drawn from the coil connected to commutator tongues of the commutator, in which a plurality of coils are wound sequentially on the armature iron core, and the trailing end of the lead wire drawn from the lastly wound coil is connected to a predetermined commutator tongue after the lead wire is wound on the insulating cylinder at a predetermined angle in such a manner that the lead wire intersects and makes contact with all the lead wires lying between the already wound coils and the commutator tongues at least more than once.

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a case formed into a bottomed hollow tubular shape and having permanent magnets fixedly fitted to the inner circumferential surface thereof, a rotor consisting of an armature and a commutator, and a case cover engaged with an open end of the case and having brushes making sliding contact with the commutator, and input terminals electrically connected to the brushes, in which fixing ribs are provided on the inner circumferential surface of the case, extending along the axial direction of the case; the edges of the permanent magnets formed into an arc-segment cross-sectional shape being caused to make contact with the side edges of the fixing ribs to fixedly fit the permanent magnets to the inner circumferential surface of the case; projections formed integrally with the permanent magnets along the edges of the permanent magnets are provided facing the surface of the fixing ribs.

Abstract: A miniature motor is provided with a rotor having a plurality of magnetic poles extending axially, which are disposed radially on the outer circumferential surface thereof, and a stator having two coils wound on coil bobbins and disposed axially in a housing formed into a bottomed hollow cylindrical shape. An end plate is fitted to an open end of the housing, in which a current feeding connector is provided, and a printed circuit board having at board end prongs carrying bonding pieces for electrically connecting to the connectors is interposed between the coil bobbins. Coil ends are connected directly to the bonding pieces of the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A miniature motor includes a case made of metallic material and formed into a bottomed hollow cylindrical shape and having a permanent magnet fixedly fitted to the inner circumferential surface thereof. A rotor is provided with an armature and a commutator. A case cap is fitted to an open end of the case and has brushes making sliding contact with the commutator. Input terminals are electrically connected to the brushes directly or via other electrically conductive material. The rotor is rotatably supported by bearings provided on the case bottom and the case cap. Through holes formed into a T shape in cross-sectional profile are provided on the case cap made of a resin material. The input terminals each having a stopper on the lower end thereof and a lanced and raised piece on the central part thereof are passed in the through holes, the lanced and raised pieces are bent to almost right angles with the input terminal surface to fixedly fit the input terminals to the case cap.

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a housing made of a metallic material, formed into a bottomed hollow tubular shape and having a permanent magnet fixedly fitted to the inner circumferential surface thereof, a rotor consisting of an armature facing the permanent magnet and a commutator, an end cap engaged with an open end of the housing, and having brushes making sliding contact with the commutator and a pair of terminals electrically connected to the brushes; the rotor being rotatably supported by bearings provided on the bottom part of the housing and the end cap, in which a flat groove including a plane parallel to the axial line of the motor and opening toward the housing is provided on the end cap; the terminals being disposed to face the side of the groove, a chip laminated capacitor and a spring made of an electrically conductive material and formed into a substantially U shape in planar projection being disposed in the groove so as to come into contact with each other and also with the terminals.

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a case made of a metallic material, formed into a bottomed hollow cylindrical shape and having permanent magnets on the inner circumferential surface thereof, a rotor consisting of an armature facing the permanent magnets and a commutator, and a case cap fitted to an open end of the case and having brushes making sliding contact with the commutator and input terminals electrically connected to the brushes; the rotor being rotatably supported by bearings provided on the bottom of the case and the case cap, in which an internal space defined by the case and the case cap is filled with an atmosphere of one or more than two types of polymethacrylate, polyacrylate, polyisobutylene, low molecular weight polyethylene, low molecular weight polypropylene, ethylene-propylene copolymer, polyvinyl acetate, and polybutene.

Abstract: A miniature motor including a electrically-conductive motor case is provided with a magnet fixedly fitted thereto. A non-electrically conductive case cover is provided holding a brushgear piece as a brush terminal piece. A ground terminal is provided in the form of an electrically conductive contacting piece in contact with case contacting piece. The electrically conductive contacting piece is formed into an essentially U shape. A case cover is provided with a groove for causing the tip of the case contacting piece to be plastically deformed providing electrical contact such that one of the brushes is electrically connected to the motor case via the ground terminal.

Abstract: A method for winding coils on a Y-connection armature for miniature motors, the motor typically including an armature iron core of a multi-pole construction, a commutator and a common terminal plate. Each of the commutator and the common terminal plate are disposed in a mutually insulated state on an insulating cylinder fixedly fitted to an armature shaft. A plurality of coils are wound on the armature iron core. Lead wires of the coils are connected to tongues of the commutator and the common terminal plate. Ends of the lead wires wound on the coils, other than the last coil, are extended across a predetermined commutator tongue and a tongue of the common terminal plate adjacent to the commutator tongue without being cut. The lead wire is connected to the tongues of the commutator tongue and the common terminal plate. Subsequently, the lead wire which is disposed across the commutator tongue and the common terminal plate tongue is cut.

Abstract: A miniature motor having a housing formed into a bottomed hollow cylindrical shape. The inner circumferential surface to which a pair of permanent magnets, which are rare-earth plastic magnets of an essentially C shape in cross section, are fixedly fitted. An end cap is fitted to an open end of the housing, and a rotor is rotatably supported in the housing by bearings provided on the housing and the end cap. A pair of the permanent magnets are formed in such a manner that the magnetic force of each magnet is made different from each other so that the rotor can be attracted to the permanent magnet having a larger magnetic force. One of the permanent magnets is made of a rare-earth plastic magnet containing a coloring material.

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a rotor having a plurality of axially extending magnetic poles disposed on the outer periphery thereof in the circumferential direction, and a stator having two axially disposed coils wound on coil bobbins, in which flanges whose outside diameter is larger than the outside diameter of hollow cylindrical coil cores are provided on both ends in the axial direction of the coil cores, the coil bobbins having on one of the flanges projections protruding toward the outside in the axial direction of the coil cores are disposed in such a manner that the projections are directed toward each other, and that the projection on one coil bobbin faces the coil core of the other coil bobbin.

Abstract: A rotor for rotary electrical machinery comprising a permanent-magnet member made of a mixture having ferromagnetic material powder and a binder resin for chief ingredients, and a shaft, in which a recess whose projected contour on a plane orthogonally intersecting the axial line of the permanent-magnet member is of a non-circular shape is provided at least an end face of the permanent-magnet member, and a shaft is press-fit into a metallic bush fitted to the recess, thereby ensuring high coaxiality tolerance between the permanent-magnet member and the shaft, easy assembly and low manufacturing cost.

Abstract: A miniature motor including a housing formed into a bottomed hollow cylindrical shape, on the inner circumferential surface of which a permanent magnet is fixedly fitted; A rotor is provided having an armature, a spark-quenching element and a commutator. An end bracket is provided having brushes fitted to the open end of the housing and making sliding contact with the commutator. Input terminals are electrically connected to the brushes; The rotor is rotatably supported by bearings provided on the housing and the end bracket, in which the spark-quenching element is formed by a laminated ceramic capacitor formed into a ring shape, having on the outer surface thereof the same number of electrodes as the number of poles of the armature; The electrostatic capacity of the capacitor is more than 1 .mu.F.

Abstract: A miniature motor including a housing formed into a bottomed hollow cylindrical shape and having a permanent magnet fixedly fitted to the inner circumferential surface thereof, an end plate engaged with an opening of the housing, and a rotor rotatably supported by bearings provided on the housing and the end plate. Power is fed to the motor by bringing a commutator constituting the rotor into sliding contact with brushes, in which a plurality of brush pieces branched from the brush are formed in such a manner that tangential lines formed by the brush pieces with respect to the commutator at predetermined contact points are made different at the tips of the brush pieces, and that the tips of brush pieces make different angles from the lines extended in the longitudinal direction of the brush pieces. The tips of brush pieces are bent to form a V shape in cross section. The tips of the brush pieces come in contact with the commutator at the opened legs of the V-shaped cross section.

Abstract: A battery box using a miniature-motor package comprising an upper part and a lower part, both of which have openings and can be joined together at the openings thereof to form a space for housing a miniature motor or other components, in which terminal mounts formed in such a manner that battery-connecting terminals, made of an electrically conductive material, are provided on the edges of the openings of the upper part and/or the lower part in such a manner as to face with each other, and a switch, made of an electrically conductive material, is rotatably provided near any one of the terminal mounts.

Abstract: A supporting device for miniature motors comprising a first member having a notched portion for supporting one miniature motor bearing convex part and a protruded portion for inserting into a hole provided on a miniature motor housing, a second member having a hole for inserting another miniature motor bearing convex part of a partly cut circular shape, a member for connecting the first member with the second member, and a handle member for expanding the distance the mutually opposing first and second members, in which these members are formed integrally and in such a manner as to have resiliency to hold the miniature motor between the mutually opposing first and second members.

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a case formed into a bottomed hollow cylindrical shape and having a permanent magnet fixedly fitted to the inner circumferential surface thereof, an end plate engaged with an opening of the case and having input terminals, and a rotor rotatably supported by bearings provided on the case and the end plate; power being fed from the input terminals to the rotor via printed-circuit boards, in which a connector-unit body is fixedly fitted to an outer end of the end plate; the connector unit having such a construction that connector pins formed of a metallic material into a strip shape and having retainer pieces for printed-circuit boards and contactor pieces for input terminals are fixedly fitted to a connector-unit body made of an insulating material and formed into a plate shape, and insertion holes are provided in the vicinity of the retainer pieces so that the printed-circuit boards and input terminals can be electrically connected by inserting the printed-circuit boards into the i

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a case formed of a metallic material into a bottomed hollow cylindrical shape on the inner circumferential surface of which a permanent magnet is fixedly fitted, a rotor consisting of an armature facing the permanent magnet and a commutator, a case cover fitted to the opening of the case, and having brushes for making sliding contact with the commutator and input terminals electrically connected to the brushes; the rotor being rotatably supported by bearings provided on the bottom of the case and the case cover, in which electronic components are inserted in series between a pair of the input terminals via spring members made of an electrically conductive material.

Abstract: A commutator has such a construction that a flange having an outside diameter larger than the outside diameter of a cylindrical body is provided integrally with the cylindrical body in the vicinity of one end of the cylindrical body; guide grooves formed in a circular arc shape in cross section are provided on the flange at the boundary of the flange to the cylindrical body; engaging pieces passing through the guide grooves are provided on one end of a commutator segment; and engaging pieces are caused to deform plastically to fixedly fit the engaging pieces to the flange.

Abstract: A miniature motor including a case made of a metallic material and formed into a bottomed hollow cylindrical shape and having a permanent magnet fixedly fitted to the inner circumferential surface thereof, a rotor comprising an armature and a commutator, a case cap fitted to an open end of the case and having brushes making sliding contact with the commutator, and terminals electrically connected to the brushes; the rotor being rotatably supported by bearings provided on the bottom of the case and the case cap; in which the input terminals are mounted on the case cap made of a resin material and fixedly fitted to the case cap by means of lanced and raised retainer pieces formed on the input terminals near the outer end face of the case cap is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method of making miniature motors comprising a process of press-fitting input terminals into a case cap, and a process of forming lanced and raised retainer pieces in the vicinity of the outer end face of the case cap.