Abstract: An electric motor with stator includes pairs of windings. Winding wire ends of the pairs of windings are electrically contacted at end surfaces with three busbars to define three phases. The three busbars include power source connection terminals which are located adjacent to one another, and the second and third busbars extending over an angular range of approximately 210°, having a same contact scheme with four contact points following one another in the circumferential direction to contact the winding ends and are offset from one another by approximately 120° in the circumferential direction, and the first busbar has a different contact scheme. The first busbar includes a first section and a second section, three contact points located in the first section, a further contact point being located in the second section.

Abstract: A winding pack for a stator assembly of an electric motor, including a coil assembly having twelve coils arranged in three groups, each having four coils of a winding, which are interleaved circumferentially. Each group has two pairs of adjacent coils, between which two pairs of the other groups are positioned. All groups have an identical sequence of their winding direction. Each pair contains both winding directions, the order of which differs between the two pairs. The technical winding start coming from one of the terminal regions in the pair that is first when viewed in the circumferential direction and the technical winding end leading to one of the terminal regions in the second pair of the relevant group are located, in relation to the winding pack, at the end face and on the side of the relevant second coil of the pair facing the first coil of this pair.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a deep-drawn motor housing including a base and an opening opposite the base, the opening being adjoined by a flange. The flange includes, adjoining the opening, at least one partial formation introduced in an axial direction and including a bearing surface of a component of the electric motor. The bearing surface is arranged in its axial position in the axial direction with respect to a surface in the bottom of the motor housing in the deep-drawing process, and the bearing surface is arranged in its radial position in a radial direction by the opening as a reference surface.

Abstract: A height adjustment device of a steering column of a motor vehicle includes an electric motor and a reduction gear. The electric motor drives a threaded spindle to raise and lower a steering assembly connected to the steering column. The threaded spindle is engaged with a spindle nut, a rotational movement of the threaded spindle is converted into a translational movement of the spindle nut in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the threaded spindle, and the threaded spindle is surrounded on a circumferential side by at least one spring that exerts a spring force on the spindle nut to counteract a weight force of the steering assembly acting in the direction of the axis of rotation of the threaded spindle. The at least one spring includes a compression spring between the reduction gear and the spindle nut and tensioned when the steering assembly is lowered.

Abstract: A method of operating a steering column of a motor vehicle, which includes a height adjuster including an electric motor and a controller to control the electric motor to raise and lower along an adjustment path of a steering assembly connected to the steering column. The control is effected by pulse width modulation and, by varying a duty cycle of the pulse width modulation, an electrical voltage is adapted in such a way that the raising and/or lowering is effected over an adjustment path at a constant adjustment speed.

Abstract: An electric motor with a deep-drawn motor housing including a flange adjoining an opening, the flange being polygonal or substantially polygonal in cross section with flange corners each including a screw-on point, each of the flange corners includes two embossments which define a bending edge of the motor housing between the screw-on point and an opening of the motor housing.

Abstract: An assembly has a radial ball bearing including a bearing inner ring, and a rotatable shaft with a shaft end region with a bearing seat. The bearing seat has a shoulder on one side, on which the bearing inner ring of the radial ball bearing is seated for supporting the shaft. The bearing seat is shortened in the longitudinal direction relative to the radial ball bearing, and extends toward a height of the radial ball bearing. The bearing seat terminates at a distance (L) from an orthogonal projection from the proximalmost points of a distalmost row of balls onto the bearing seat surface such that L=k*D, wherein k is in a range between 0.7 and 0.5.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a transmission housing unit and to a transmission unit which has said transmission housing unit. The transmission housing unit has a housing main body which has a through hole, through which a shaft which penetrates the housing main body in the axial shaft direction can be pushed into the housing main body, a wedge-shaped compensation element for axial play compensation between the shaft and the housing main body which engages around the shaft at least in a U-shaped or arcuate manner, and a pre-stressed spring element which is arranged between the obtuse end of the compensation element and the housing main body. The compensation element can be displaced radially in the direction of the shaft axis along a guide surface of the housing main body between an assembly position and an active position.

Abstract: An assembly has a radial ball bearing including a bearing inner ring, and a rotatable shaft with a shaft end region with a bearing seat. The bearing seat has a shoulder on one side, on which the bearing inner ring of the radial ball bearing is seated for supporting the shaft. The bearing seat is shortened in the longitudinal direction relative to the radial ball bearing, and extends toward a height of the radial ball bearing. The bearing seat terminates at a distance (L) from an orthogonal projection from the proximalmost points of a distalmost row of balls onto the bearing seat surface such that L=k*D, wherein k is in a range between 0.7 and 0.5.

Abstract: A compensating arrangement for compensating axial play for a transmission housing unit, having a housing base body and a rotatable shaft, a first guide surface transversely to the axial direction and a second guide surface obliquely to the axial direction, wherein the shaft is supported between the guide surfaces with the interposition of the compensating arrangement, is configured in the shape of a wedge and is displaceable along the second guide surface in a feed direction transversely to the axial direction in order to compensate axial play of the shaft, wherein the transmission housing unit contains a pre-stressed spring element for the compensating arrangement in the feed direction, wherein the compensating arrangement is configured to increase the frictional force at least in the direction opposite the feed direction.

Abstract: In a transmission housing unit having a housing base body for a shaft, which is supported with a compensating arrangement between a second end face and a second guide surface. The compensating arrangement has an axial disk. The axial disk and the housing base body have corresponding geometric unbalances in accordance with the poka-yoke principle such that the axial disk is only insertable in a single orientation into the housing base body in the assembly condition.

Abstract: A motor may include a rotating section; and a stationary section. The rotating section may include a shaft, a rotor core, and a coil wound around the rotor core. The stationary section may include a brush holding device, a housing, a magnet, and a bearing. A first circuit board may be retained by the brush holding device. The housing may include a cylindrical portion, a lid portion, and a bottom portion. The brush holding device may include a brush holder, a plug, a first plug contact element, and a second plug contact element, and at least two brushes. The cylindrical portion of the housing may include a through-hole in a radial direction. The plug may be exposed to the outside through the through-hole, and ends in an axial direction of the brush holder may covered by the lid portion and the bottom portion of the housing.

Abstract: A brush holding device may include a brush holder; a plug; a first plug contact element and a second plug contact element; and a first circuit board. The first plug contact element and the second plug contact element may be connected with a brush through a choke coil. The first circuit board may include electric-magnetic interference suppression components connected to a first and second contact area of the first circuit board. The electric-magnetic interference suppression components may be electrically connected to the first contact area and the second contact area, and the electric-magnetic interference suppression components may be directly or indirectly grounded.

Abstract: A motor may include a rotating section; and a stationary section. The rotating section may include a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a coil wound around the rotor core, and a sensor magnet fixed to the shaft. The stationary section may include a brush holding device, a housing, a magnet fixed inside the housing, a bearing, a first circuit board, and a second circuit board. The housing may include a cylindrical portion, a lid portion, and a bottom portion. The brush holding device may include a brush holder, a plug, a first plug contact element and a second plug contact element, the first circuit board, a choke coil, and a brush. The first circuit board may include electric-magnetic interference suppression components. The second circuit board may include a magnetic pole facing the sensor magnet.

Abstract: A worm gear assembly may include an input shaft having a first and second screw formed axially thereon, a first torque transfer unit comprising a first worm wheel operatively coupled to the first worm screw, a first radial pinion coaxially affixed to the first worm wheel, and a first axial crown wheel operatively coupled to the first radial pinion, and a second torque transfer unit comprising a second worm wheel operatively coupled to the second worm screw, a second radial pinion coaxially affixed to the second worm wheel, and a second axial crown wheel operatively coupled to the second radial pinion, wherein the first radial pinion is in meshed interface with the second radial pinion, and wherein torque differences between the first axial crown wheel and the second axial crown wheel are transmitted at least in part through said meshed interface.

Abstract: An armature may include a rotor with a plurality of teeth, at least one insulator covering at least a part the teeth, a plurality of coils wound on the teeth, and a plurality of cavities. Each one of the cavities may be arranged between two of the teeth and may be formed on the at least one insulator. At least one of the cavities may be configured and arranged for receiving coil windings adjacent to a wall portion of the at least one cavity. The at least one of the plurality of cavities may include a switching wire receptor. The switching wire receptor may include a recess in a wall portion of the at least one of the plurality of cavities for receiving a switching wire. The recess may have a depth larger than the diameter of the switching wire.

Abstract: A ring magnet unit for an electric motor is provided, comprising a circular magnet holder and at least two magnet segments fixed to the magnet holder and arranged in a circumferential direction of the magnet holder, wherein respective one magnet segment has a first surface abutting to a surface of the magnet holder and a second surface which is the opposite surface of the first surface. Both side surfaces of the first surface and the second surface are chamfered in the directions that cross the radial direction of the magnet holder at the same angles. At least one pair of the adjacent two magnet segments comprises one magnet segment whose circumferential length of the first surface is equal to or longer than the circumferential length of the second surface and the other magnet segment whose circumferential length of the first surface is equal to or shorter than the circumferential length of the second surface.

Abstract: A rotor core (100, 110) for an electrical motor with a rotational axis (6) and a central opening (200) to take up a shaft (4) of the electrical motor turning around the rotational axis (6), with the central opening (200) having a peripheral edge (201) with at least one attachment section (242), designed for attachment of the rotor core to the shaft by press fit, and at least one centering section (244), wherein the at least one centering section (244) and the at least one attachment section (242) are placed in different sections of the peripheral edge (201) in the circumferential direction (tangentially).