Abstract: A shaft of a motor includes a first shaft having a tubular shape extending in an axial direction, a lid portion disposed in one axial end portion of the first shaft, a second shaft extending on one axial side from the lid portion, a first shaft through hole penetrating the first shaft in a radial direction, and a second shaft through hole communicating with an inside of the first shaft and an external space of the shaft. The lid portion and the second shaft have conductivity. The second shaft through hole is disposed on one axial side with respect to the first shaft through hole. The second shaft is in contact with an electrical discharging device that electrically connects the shaft and the housing of the motor.

Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnets positioned radially outside the rotor core, a rotor cover having a tubular portion surrounding the rotor core and the magnet, and a resin portion coupling the rotor core and the magnet with each other. The resin portion has a first lid portion positioned on one axial side of the rotor core and the magnet. The rotor cover has a flange portion projecting radially inward from the tubular portion on one axial side of the first lid portion. The first lid portion has a recess portion depressed from a surface on one axial side of the first lid portion. The recess portion is positioned at a position overlapping between the circumferentially adjacent magnets. The flange portion has a first swage portion swaged to the other axial side and positioned inside the recess portion.

Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor including a rotor including a shaft rotatable about a rotation axis and a stator surrounding the rotor from radially outside, a housing that accommodates the motor, a bearing that is fixed to the housing and rotatably supports the shaft, a resolver including a resolver rotor fixed to the shaft and a resolver stator fixed to the housing, and a contact that has conductivity, is fixed to the housing, and is in contact with a contacted portion at an end portion on one axial side of the shaft. The housing includes an accommodation space in which the contacted portion of the shaft is accommodated. The contact and the resolver are side by side in a direction along a rotation axis in the accommodation space.

Abstract: A motor unit includes a bearing rotatably holding a shaft, and a housing accommodating a rotor, a stator, and the bearing. The housing has an opening, a cover closing the opening and fixed to the housing, and an annular member that has an annular shape when viewed from the axial direction and is provided independently from the bearing. The cover includes an accommodation portion accommodating the annular member, one or more ribs disposed radially outward of the accommodation portion when viewed from the axial direction, and one or more fixing points fixed to the housing. The one or more ribs extend outward from the accommodation portion. When viewed from the axial direction, for at least one of the ribs, the fixing point is formed on an extension line extending outward from the rib in a direction in which the rib extends.

Abstract: A motor shaft of a drive apparatus extends along a first rotation axis extending in an axial direction. A gear portion is connected to one axial side of the motor shaft. A housing tubular portion extends in the axial direction and holds a stator on the radially inner surface. The first lid portion is attached to the other axial end portion of the housing tubular portion. The first bearing of the motor bearing that rotatably supports the motor shaft is a rolling bearing disposed on the first lid portion, and rotatably supports the motor shaft on the other axial side with respect to the rotor. The motor shaft and the first lid portion are electrically insulated by the first bearing.

Abstract: A shaft of a motor includes a first shaft and a second shaft extending from the first shaft to one axial side. A housing includes a neutralizing device holder that holds a first neutralizing device. The neutralizing device holder includes a seal holder that is arranged radially outward of the second shaft and holds a seal member. The first neutralizing device electrically connects the second shaft and the neutralizing device holder. The seal member seals a gap between the second shaft and the seal holder, and is arranged on the other axial side of the first neutralizing device.

Abstract: Provided are: a rotor having a shaft rotatable about a rotation axis; a stator that surrounds the rotor from a radially outer side; a housing that accommodates the rotor and the stator; a bearing that is arranged in the housing and rotatably supports the shaft; an extension shaft arranged at an end portion on one axial side of the shaft to contact the shaft; and a neutralizing member that is arranged in the housing and contacts the extension shaft. The extension shaft has a fixed portion radially overlapping the shaft. The fixed portion has a protrusion radially protruding toward the shaft.

Abstract: A motor unit includes a shaft and an electrical discharging device. The shaft includes a helical gear. The electrical discharging device includes a contact member, a biasing member, and a case. The biasing member biases the contact member toward an end face of an end part of the shaft in a direction parallel to the axial direction of the shaft. The contact member has conductivity. The contact member is brought into contact with the end face by the biasing of the biasing member. The maximum stroke amount of the contact member in the axial direction is larger than the movement width of the shaft in the axial direction during rotation.

Abstract: A shaft of a motor includes a first shaft having a tubular shape extending in an axial direction, a lid portion disposed in one axial end portion of the first shaft, a second shaft extending on one axial side from the lid portion, a first shaft through hole penetrating the first shaft in a radial direction, and a second shaft through hole communicating with an inside of the first shaft and an external space of the shaft. The lid portion and the second shaft have conductivity. The second shaft through hole is disposed on one axial side with respect to the first shaft through hole. The second shaft is in contact with an electrical discharging device that electrically connects the shaft and the housing of the motor.

Abstract: A motor unit includes a bearing rotatably holding a shaft, and a housing accommodating a rotor, a stator, and the bearing. The housing has an opening, a cover closing the opening and fixed to the housing, and an annular member that has an annular shape when viewed from the axial direction and is provided independently from the bearing. The cover includes an accommodation portion accommodating the annular member, one or more ribs disposed radially outward of the accommodation portion when viewed from the axial direction, and one or more fixing points fixed to the housing. The one or more ribs extend outward from the accommodation portion. When viewed from the axial direction, for at least one of the ribs, the fixing point is formed on an extension line extending outward from the rib in a direction in which the rib extends.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core disposed about a central axis and covered by an insulator, coils installed on the stator core through the insulator, and an intermediate bus bar electrically connected to a portion of a conducting wire constituting the coils. A method of manufacturing a stator includes a mounting process, a winding process, and a connecting process. An intermediate bus bar is supported at a first position spaced apart from a coil in an axial direction in a mounting portion before the start of the winding process. The intermediate bus bar is fixed at a second position between the first position and the coils in the axial direction after the completion of the winding process.

Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor including a rotor including a shaft rotatable about a rotation axis and a stator surrounding the rotor from radially outside, a housing that accommodates the motor, a bearing that is fixed to the housing and rotatably supports the shaft, a resolver including a resolver rotor fixed to the shaft and a resolver stator fixed to the housing, and a contact that has conductivity, is fixed to the housing, and is in contact with a contacted portion at an end portion on one axial side of the shaft. The housing includes an accommodation space in which the contacted portion of the shaft is accommodated. The contact and the resolver are side by side in a direction along a rotation axis in the accommodation space.

Abstract: An electric pump apparatus includes a motor, an inverter board, a coil support, a housing, and a pump portion driven by the motor. Coils include first end portions and second end portions drawn out from the coils, the first end portion and the second end portion defining both end portions of each of conducting wires of the coils. The inverter board is on a first axial side of the motor. The coil support includes a neutral point busbar that electrically connects the coils to one another. The coil support includes a first region including the first end portions arranged therein, each first end portion being directly connected to the inverter board, and a second region including the second end portions and the neutral point busbar arranged therein, each second end portion being connected to the neutral point busbar.

Abstract: A rotor includes magnets, and a rotor core including thin film cores laminated in an axial direction and magnet holes in which the magnets are located. The rotor core includes first thin plate cores and second thin plate cores. The first thin plate cores include an annular first inner plate, first outer plates on a radially outer side of the inner plate and arrayed side by side in the circumferential direction, first inner connecting portions connecting the inner plate and the outer plate, and a first outer connecting portion that is on a radially outer side of the first outer plate and connects the adjacent outer plates in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnets positioned radially outside the rotor core, a rotor cover having a tubular portion surrounding the rotor core and the magnet, and a resin portion coupling the rotor core and the magnet with each other. The resin portion has a first lid portion positioned on one axial side of the rotor core and the magnet. The rotor cover has a flange portion projecting radially inward from the tubular portion on one axial side of the first lid portion. The first lid portion has a recess portion depressed from a surface on one axial side of the first lid portion. The recess portion is positioned at a position overlapping between the circumferentially adjacent magnets. The flange portion has a first swage portion swaged to the other axial side and positioned inside the recess portion.

Abstract: In a stator, a bus bar holder includes: a base; an annular inside wall protruding from a radially inner edge of the base; an annular outside wall protruding from a radially outer edge portion of the base; and a plurality of sidewalls connecting the inside wall and the outside wall. The base, the inside wall, the outside wall, and the sidewall constitute a plurality of recesses. The coil connection units of bus bars protrude from the base. Among the coil leaders, at least a part of the coil leaders is a first coil leader that is accommodated in the recess while the front end is bent onto the other side in the radial direction. The front end of at least one first coil leader is accommodated in each recess and connected to the coil connection unit in the recess.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, a plurality of coils, a bus bar holder, and a plurality of bus bars. The bus bar holder includes a base, an annular inside wall and an annular outside wall protruding toward one side in the axial direction, and constitutes a recess recessed on the other side in the axial direction. The coil connection units of bus bars protrude from the base toward one side in the axial direction. Among the coil leaders of each of coils, at least a part of the coil leaders is a first coil leader that is accommodated in the recess while a front end is bent onto the other side in the radial direction. The front end of the first coil leader is connected to the coil connection unit in the recess.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a shaft centered on a central axis that extends in an axial direction, a stator which is disposed to face the rotor and includes a plurality of coils, a housing in which the rotor and the stator are housed, and a bus bar assembly that is disposed on one side of the shaft in the axial direction, wherein the bus bar assembly includes a plurality of bus bars that are electrically connected to the plurality of coils of the stator and a bus bar holder that holds the plurality of bus bars, and wherein at least one bus bar among the plurality of bus bars is placed on a disposition surface part provided on the bus bar holder and extends in a direction crossing the central axis.

Abstract: A motor includes a magnet rotating together with a rotor about a central axis, a substrate on which a sensor to detect a position of the magnet is installed, a housing to hold a stator to drive the rotor, a bearing assembly including a bearing holder, and a conductor assembly between the housing and the bearing assembly. The conductor assembly includes a conductor including a first conductor electrically connected to the sensor through the substrate and a conductor holder covering the conductor. The substrate is fixed to the conductor holder. In the radial direction, a gap is located between an outer side surface of the bearing holder and an inner side surface of the conductor holder, and at least a portion of the magnet is located in the gap.

Abstract: A stator includes a plurality of lead wires extending upward from a coil and a guide member supporting the lead wire above the coil. The guide member is an insulating body. The guide member includes a lower plate, an inner wall, and an upper plate. The lower plate spreads annularly around a central axis. The inner wall extends upward from an inner circumference of the lower plate. The upper plate extends from the inner wall to a radial outside. A single lead wire accommodation space exists on an upper side of the lower plate, a lower side of the upper plate, and a radial outside of the inner wall. The plurality of lead wires are circumferentially disposed along the inner wall in the lead wire accommodation space.