Abstract: A brush used to contact with a commutator, includes a brush body which includes two opposite axial end faces and a protruding portion projecting from the brush body toward the commutator. The protruding portion includes a first surface, a second surface and at least two teeth. The first surface and the second surface are respectively adjacent to the two axial end faces. Angles formed between the first surface and the second surface and corresponding adjacent axial end faces are obtuse. The teeth is located between the first surface and the second surface, and extends generally along a circumferential direction of the commutator. The ratio of a total width of the at least two teeth in an axial direction of the brush to an axial height of the brush body is in the range of 0.25-0.75. An electric motor including the brush is also provided.

Abstract: A linear vibration motor comprises: a movable element that comprises a magnet portion, a weight portion, and a yoke; a frame for enclosing the movable element; a coil, secured to the frame, for applying a driving force to the magnet portion so as to cause the movable element to undergo reciprocating vibration along the axial direction; and an elastic member for applying, to the movable element, an elastic force that repels the driving force that is applied to the magnet portion, wherein: a magnetic material portion (a magnetic material piece) that extend along the direction of vibration of the movable element is provided on an inner surface of the frame, and the yoke has a raised portion near the magnetic material portion (the magnetic material piece).

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor rotatable about an axis, a housing defining a motor chamber receiving at least a portion of the rotor, and a bearing assembly rotatably supporting the rotor on the housing. The housing includes a pair of axially spaced apart endshields. The bearing assembly includes a bearing and lubricant collection structure associated with the bearing. The lubricant collection structure defines a collection chamber configured to collect lubricant from the motor chamber and direct the lubricant to the bearing.

Abstract: A reduction in thickness and a reduction in size in the width direction are enabled while enjoying the benefits of enabling stabilized vibration and superior physical shock durability through the provision of stationary shafts. The linear vibration motor comprises: a movable element that is equipped with a magnet portion and a weight portion; a frame for enclosing the movable element; a coil that is secured to the frame, for driving the magnet portion along the axial direction; an elastic member for applying, to the movable element, an elastic force for repelling the driving force that acts on the magnet portion; and a pair of guide shafts that is arranged along an axial direction, having one end secured to a frame and the other end supporting slidably the movable element.

Abstract: A motor and methods for making and using same. The motor includes a stator having a first stator portion with first and second arcuate regions. The arcuate regions can receive a rotor with a magnetic pole and being concentrically arranged with the stator relative to a central axis. The stator can have one or more winding portions for being wound with a winding and extending from the first stator portion opposite the arcuate regions. When the winding is not energized, a first magnetic coupling between the first arcuate region and a selected magnetic pole is greater than a second magnetic coupling between the second arcuate region and the selected magnetic pole. A selected winding portion is angularly offset from the first arcuate region to advantageously enable movement of the rotor to initiate in either of two opposite directions relative to the selected winding portion when the winding is energized.

Abstract: A surface elastic wave generator may include a substrate. A first conductivity type region is formed in the substrate. A second conductivity type doped region includes at least one doping pattern doped on surface of the first conductivity type region. Through applying reverse bias to junctions between the first conductivity type region and the second conductivity type doped region, a depletion capacitance region is formed. Also, through inputting signal to the first conductivity type region or the second conductivity type doped region, the surface elastic wave is generated on the substrate. In addition, a surface elastic wave transceiver and surface elastic wave generation method are also provided.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine having a stator and a rotor, in addition to an electric control device and a connection device which comprises at least one coupling element for electrically connecting the control device to one or several electrical lines and a mass element provided to connect to an electric mass potential. In order to improve the machine with respect to electromagnetic interference, the stator is connected to the mass element by a contact bridge which has a first securing section and a second securing section in addition to a bridge element arranged between the securing sections and includes a single-piece spring steel sheet which is at least partially sinuous.

Abstract: A stator that includes an annular stator core having a plurality of slots and a plurality of coils attached to the stator core, the plurality of coils each including a main body that is inserted in the plurality of slots and includes two slot housed portions and coil end portions including oblique portions extending obliquely with respect to the axial direction, a radially first side end portion formed from one of the slot housed portions, and a radially second side end portion formed from the other one of the slot housed portions.

Abstract: A motor is cooled with a coolant. The motor includes a rotor rotatable about an axis, a stator including a stator core and windings wound about the stator core, a housing enclosing at least a portion of the stator, and a resiliently deflectable spray ring extending circumferentially relative to the axis. The spray ring defines at least one orifice configured to direct coolant on the stator. The spray ring presents first and second arcuately spaced apart ends defining a gap therebetween.

Abstract: A vehicle powertrain includes a stator defining a circular opening having an inner diameter, and a rotor to rotate within the circular opening such that a gap is formed between a rotor surface and the stator at the inner diameter. The powertrain further includes a repellant, coated on the stator and the rotor surface, to control fluid flow in the gap.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and an insulator. The insulator includes a main body and a wall. An adhesive is attached to a portion of a triangular gap between the wall of the insulator and a yoke of the stator core. The adhesive is expandable, and adheres and fixes the insulator to the stator core by expanding to fill in the gap by being heated. Also, a stator manufacturing method includes attaching an adhesive to the wall of the insulator or an inside wall of the yoke, installing the insulator on a tooth, and heating the stator core and the insulator.

Abstract: A single phase motor includes a rotor including magnetic poles and a stator comprising a stator core and a winding wound on the stator core. The stator core includes a plurality of stator teeth each including a tooth body and a tooth end formed at an end of the tooth body, the tooth end comprising first and second arcuate regions facing the rotor. When the winding is not energized, a first magnetic coupling between said first arcuate region and a selected magnetic pole of said rotor is greater than a second magnetic coupling between said second arcuate region and the selected magnetic pole, said first arcuate region being offset from a selected tooth body in such a way as to enable movement of said rotor to initiate in either of two opposite directions relative to said selected tooth body upon energizing the winding.

Abstract: An electromechanical transducer of the invention comprises a structural unit, an armature, and the first and second elastic units. The structural unit includes magnets, a yoke and a coil. The armature includes an inner portion disposed to pass through inside the structural unit and two outer portions protruding from the inner portion in a first direction, and the armature constitutes a magnetic circuit with the structural unit via two regions through which components of the magnetic flux flow in reverse directions in the inner region. The elastic units give restoring forces to the outer portions in response to displacement of the armature due to magnetic forces of the magnetic circuit. In the armature, a cross-sectional area at a predetermined position between the two regions is smaller than that at the two regions, and magnetic flux flowing in the first direction within a range of displacement of the armature.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, a housing, a bus bar assembly, a cover fixed to the housing, and a circuit board. The bus bar assembly includes a bus bar, a wiring member, and a bus bar holder. The bus bar holder includes a main body portion, a connector portion, and a connection terminal holding portion. The cover directly or indirectly contacts a second side of the main body portion. The wiring member includes a circuit board connection terminal fixed to the connection terminal holding portion and an external power-supply connection terminal. At least one other portion of the wiring member is located closer to a second side of the motor than the external power-supply connection terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a voice coil motor, the motor including a mover having a bobbin equipped with a lens and a coil block secured to an outer circumference of the bobbin; a stator having a magnet that is disposed in such a way as to face the coil block; elastic members coupled to a lower end of the bobbin and connected to both ends of the coil block; a base supporting the elastic members and the stator; and a cover can covering the mover, the stator and the base, with an opening being formed in the cover can to expose the lens therethrough, wherein each of the elastic members includes a terminal portion that extends between the cover can and a side surface of the base, the terminal portion including a short-circuit prevention portion so as to inhibit a short-circuit between the terminal portion and the cover can.

Abstract: A side winding motor stator includes a plurality of stator structures, a plurality of winding structures and a plurality of winding rolls. The stator structures are assembled to form a stator module. Each of the stator structures includes a stator tooth and an insulated frame. The stator tooth is configured into the insulated frame. The insulated frame has a gap. The winding structures, each of which has a plurality of lateral slots, are engaged through the gap. The winding rolls are engaged in the lateral slots.

Abstract: An in-wheel motor system can drive an in-wheel motor stably, and also allows power feeding from the road surface, even when transmission and reception coils are misaligned. An in-wheel motor system (1) includes a power transmitter (100) that utilizes a resonance phenomenon using a magnetic field. The power transmitter (100) transmits power (P) wirelessly from the vehicle body to an in-wheel motor (10) mounted in a wheel. The in-wheel motor system (1) may also include a communication interface (110) that communicates between the vehicle body and the wheel, and the communication interface (110) may transmit a control signal (CTL) for driving the in-wheel motor.

Abstract: A terminal mounting structure includes a plurality of receive-side terminals, each of which extends from a distal end of each of electrical leads, a mounting stand that includes an electrically-insulating base and a plurality of supply-side conductive bars that are disposed at intervals and extend so as to pass through the base, a plurality of screws, each of which passes through the receive-side terminal in a direction crossing an extending direction of the receive-side terminal, each of which is screwed into a screw hole formed at an end part of the supply-side conductive bar so as to cause each of the receive-side terminals to contact each of the supply-side conductive bars and to fix each of the receive-side terminals to each of the supply-side conductive bars, and a contact prevention mechanism that is provided in the mounting stand so as to prevent adjacent receive-side terminals from contacting with each other.

Abstract: An electronic vibrator comprises a power source unit converting AC power into DC power, a bridge circuit comprising an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) as a power switching device for driving a large-capacity oscillator, a circuit driving unit driving the bridge circuit and applying a sine wave which is a sine wave PWM modulation reference wave as well as a triangular wave, and a vibration generator connected to the bridge circuit, generating vibration by a current supplied by the bridge circuit.

Abstract: A stator core of a rotating electric machine, includes a base, teeth, slots, and cutouts. The base includes a through-hole having a substantially cylindrical shape surrounded by an inner circumferential wall around a center axis of the substantially cylindrical shape. Teeth are arranged around the center axis and extending along a radial direction of the substantially cylindrical shape from the inner circumferential wall toward the center axis. Each of the teeth has a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to the first end surface in the center axis. Each of the slots is defined between a tooth and another tooth adjacent to the tooth among the teeth such that a coil is to be provided into each of the slots. Each of the cutouts is provided in the first end surface to face an inner surface of a bent portion of the coil.