Circumferential Adjustment Patents (Class 310/241)
  • Patent number: 10886800
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a direct current motor for a vehicle, the motor having a novel electromagnetic structure and exhibiting excellent driving efficiency. The direct current motor comprises: a cover assembly; a yoke assembly that has a housing coupled with the cover assembly and a plurality of excitation poles arranged within the housing; an armature assembly that includes an armature core having a plurality of pole teeth around which coils interacting with the excitation poles are wound and a commutator having, on the armature core, the same number of commutator films as the excitation poles; and a brush disposed inside the cover assembly and selectively making contact with the commutator as the armature assembly rotates, wherein the excitation poles are provided such that three N-poles and three S-poles are alternately arranged, and 13 pole teeth and 13 commutator films are radially formed with a predetermined angle therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: TAMAS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Moon Kang
  • Patent number: 10439350
    Abstract: A contact-making rotary transmission includes a brush forming an electrically conductive sliding contact element and a contact path of electrically conductive material for contact with the brush. The brush is guided and/or held by an arrangement which includes a plurality of carrier segments arranged axially behind one another. Each carrier segment has attached thereto a brush receptacle such as to define a first gap between the carrier segment and the brush receptacle. The brush receptacle includes a stationary receiving shaft which is formed by walls and configured to receive the brush, and a guide element which is provided on a wall of the receiving shaft so as to define a second gap between the brush and the wall. At least one of the walls includes an opening in communication with the first and second gaps to allow a flow of cooling air for cooling the brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Maier, Herbert Binder, Robert Gruber, Martin Krompass, Oliver Memminger, Klaus Schifferer
  • Patent number: 9225220
    Abstract: An permanent magnet alternator stator assembly for an integrated air turbine starter and permanent magnet alternator assembly has a permanent magnet alternator stator winding assembly attached to a mounting structure. A quick electrical connector electrically connects to the stator winding assembly and is attached to the mounting structure. The mounting structure includes an alignment aperture for removably attaching the permanent magnet alternator winding assembly to an air turbine starter. An integrated air turbine starter and permanent magnet alternator assembly and accessory gearbox assembly are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Michael R. Blewett, Jeff A. Brown, Jeffrey A. Stadler
  • Patent number: 8901800
    Abstract: A motor includes a motor portion and a speed reducing portion. In the motor portion, a brush holder that holds a feeder brush for feeding electric power to a commutator is arranged at an opening of a yoke. The speed reducing portion has a speed reducing mechanism, which is arranged in a gear housing. The speed reducing mechanism outputs drive force produced by a rotary shaft of the motor portion with the rotating speed of the rotary shaft reduced by the speed reducing mechanism. A brush holder includes a support pillar projecting toward the gear housing and an urging member that urges the feeder brush against the commutator. A positioning portion for positioning the brush holder with respect to the gear housing in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction is formed at a distal end portion of the support pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuo Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8816563
    Abstract: The invention relates to a six-pole DC machine, particularly a DC motor for use in a motor vehicle, having a stator (16) excited preferably by a permanent magnet and a rotor (20) which is rotatably supported in a pole housing (12) and which has a wave winding (23) and a commutator (24), and having a brush carrier (28) for holding the brushes (26) and preferably additional components (30, 31; 32). In contrast to a full equipping, the brush arrangement has less than six brushes (26), which are arranged on the circumference of the commutator (24) at an angular distance of approximately 60° to each other. Thus, the ripple of the rotor current, the torque oscillations, and the noise emission are clearly reduced and free space is created on the brush carrier for accommodating suppressor components (30, 31; 32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Patent number: 8471431
    Abstract: A motor including a magnet, an armature, a common brush, a low-speed drive brush, and a high-speed drive brush is disclosed. The magnet forms four or more magnetic pole portions. The armature includes a rotation shaft, an armature having fourteen teeth, a coil wound around the teeth, and a commutator having fourteen segments arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft. The common brush, low-speed drive brush, and high-speed drive brush are spaced apart and arranged in the circumferential direction of the rotation shaft and each have a width in the circumferential direction of the rotation shaft. The number of teeth is the same as the number of segments. When P represents the number of magnetic pole portions of the magnet and S represents the number of teeth, (2S/P) is an odd number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Harada, Yoshiaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8427028
    Abstract: These and other objects of the present invention are achieved by a brush holder assembly for an electric motor or generator wherein the brush box or holder is arcuate and curved in relationship to a commutator and supports a brush means and a floating constant force spring which allows dynamic movement and control of the brush as it moves towards a commutator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Inventor: Roger Clemente
  • Patent number: 8395297
    Abstract: An electric machine has at least two pairs of carbon brushes made up of one plus and one minus carbon brush, which interact with a commutator in order to supply current to the rotor, the carbon brushes being mounted with their brush holder on a brush plate via a mount, and the mounts on the brush plate lying across from each other at 180°. The holding part on at least one brush holder is offset from the center, in particular from the axis of symmetry of the brush holder, by an angle relative to the rotor axis so as to realize an asymmetrical placement of the carbon brush, the holding part on the other brush holders being disposed on their axes of symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Bayer, Gerlinde Gerschwitz
  • Publication number: 20120175975
    Abstract: Disclosed is herein a switched reluctance motor including: a rotor; commutators connected to both ends of the rotor; brushes mechanically contacting to the commutators by rotation of the rotor; a stator having the brushes fixed thereto and having stator poles having coils wound therearound, wherein the brushes are moved and mounted by an advance angle from a connection axis of stator poles opposite to each other, wherein the advance angle is a region between application of a voltage and rise of an inductance and a dwell angle, a voltage application period is controlled by arc angles of the commutator and the brush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Kyung Bae, Chee Woo Lee, Tae Ho Yun
  • Publication number: 20120175997
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor including a rotor having a coil wound therearound; commutators connected to both ends of the rotor; brushes mechanically contacting the commutators by rotation of the rotor; and a stator having the brushes fixed thereto and having stator poles, wherein the brushes are moved by an advance angle from a connection axis of stator poles counterclockwise, and a dwell angle, a voltage application period is controlled by arc angles of the commutator and the brush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chee Woo LEE, Han Kyung BAE, Ki Young LEE
  • Patent number: 8049392
    Abstract: An apparatus for holding a brush in contact with a moving conductive surface, the apparatus includes: a rotatable member disposed adjacent to the brush; and a spring coupled to the brush and to the member and configured to bias the brush towards the moving conductive surface; wherein the rotatable member in a first position makes contact with the brush to secure the brush from movement and in a second position releases the brush from the contact to allow the spring to hold the brush in contact with the moving conductive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Paul August Quail, Albert Eugene Steinbach
  • Patent number: 7982357
    Abstract: A brush holder assembly for a dynamo-electric machine includes a brush fixture snap-fittingly secured to a shielding fixture. A brush member is moveably mounted within the brush fixture and includes a recessed region, and a shunt member. The shunt member includes a first end operatively connected to the brush member at the recessed region that extends through an intermediate region to a second end. A constant force spring is operatively connected between the second end section of the brush and the brush fixture. The brush holder assembly also includes a shunt retainer mounted in the brush fixture abutting the brush member. The shunt retainer includes a first leg portion, a second leg portion and a base portion. The shunt retainer is configured to maintain proper alignment of the constant force spring and prevent entanglement of the shunt member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Remy Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Curtis Harris, Michael McCord, Christopher H. Hunt
  • Patent number: 7973448
    Abstract: A brush holder having brush holding portions and coil holding portions is disclosed. Each brush holding portion holds a brush such that the brush is slidable on a commutator attached to a rotary shaft. Each coil holding portion holds a choke coil electrically connected to one of the coils. The brush holder includes a holder base member and brush holding members that are assembled to the holder base member so as to form the brush holding portions. Each brush holding member includes a coil supporting portion, which forms the coil holding portion between the corresponding brush holding member and the holder base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Omori, Nobuo Mizutani
  • Patent number: 7893592
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor (10) and to a method for producing said electric motor, especially for adjusting mobile parts in a motor vehicle. Said electric motor comprises a collector (36), arranged on an armature (38) and electrically contacted via hammer brushes (12). The armature (38) is surrounded by a lower housing part (32) and an upper housing part (34) which can be assembled in a radial direction (50) in relation to the armature (38). The hammer brushes (12) comprise one fastening element (26) each which engages directly in a seat (30) of the lower or upper housing part (32, 34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Hornung, Thomas Huck, Tarek Mili, Armin Niederer, Diyap Bueyuekasik, Lars-Dirk Anding
  • Patent number: 7876004
    Abstract: The invention is based on an electrical power tool with an electrical machine, having a motor housing that receives the electrical machine and having a rotatable brush plate for reversing a direction of rotation of the electrical machine. The brush plate is covered in its cross section by a pivotable cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Kuhnle, Willy Braun
  • Patent number: 7859148
    Abstract: A brush holder includes a base member and a retaining member mounted on the base member. The retaining member includes a first brush retaining portion and a first coil retaining portion. A first choke coil is electrically connected to a first brush. The first choke coil includes a first coil terminal extending to the outside of the first coil retaining portion. The base member includes a connector portion, a first conductive member, and a first coil terminal support portion. The first conductive member extends from the connector portion and is electrically connected to the first coil terminal at a first connecting portion. The first coil terminal support portion supports the first coil terminal between the first connecting portion and the first coil retaining portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: ASMO Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuo Mizutani
  • Patent number: 7612482
    Abstract: An electric motor fixedly axially securable in a housing includes a brush plate with a plurality of axially projecting, uniformly circumferentially distributed, convexly shaped, locking segments formed on the brush plate. The brush plate and the locking segments may be formed of an injection-moldable plastic material. The locking segments may be spherically shaped, and the there may be four locking segments. The brush plate may include a plurality of radial, circumferentially distributed, stop surfaces with which are associated a corresponding plurality of radially inwardly projecting radial guides in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Burger, Stefan Aust
  • Publication number: 20090058220
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a cylindrical yoke with a bottom; a bracket that covers an opening of the yoke; and a brush holder. The brush holder includes a brush housing portion, with the brush housing portion having three side piece portions, excluding a bottom piece portion, integrally formed; a first disk portion; and a second disk portion. The first disk portion and the second disk portion are integrated with the bottom piece portion of the brush housing portion. A ring-shaped abutting surface and the bottom piece portion of the brush housing portion are formed on a bracket-side disk surface of the brush holder. The abutting surface is formed as a holding portion that is pressed to the yoke by the bracket via a bracket-side elastic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Yamamoto, Jun Kondo
  • Publication number: 20080211328
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine tool comprising an electric motor (2) which serves to drive a tool and which has an adjustable, electric brush arrangement (3), and comprising a mode selector switch (6) having various switch positions. Provision is made for an adjusting device (8) to displace the brush arrangement (3) as a function of the switch position of the mode selector switch (6). Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Martin Rittner, Heinz Schnerring, Andreas Strasser
  • Publication number: 20070236096
    Abstract: A motor (2) includes a carbon brush holder device (16) for reversing the rotating direction of the motor (2) and which has a brush holder (18) which is rotatable relative to the stator (8) of the motor (2) in clockwise running position and counterclockwise running position, two carbon brush guides which electrically connected to the stator (8) in both running positions by a switching arrangement (45) and provided at the brush holder (18), with the switching arrangement (45) having stator-side switching contact means and brush-side switching contact means which produce different contacts in the clockwise running position and the counterclockwise running position for reversing the polarity of the motor (2), and with the switching contact means are being encapsulated relative to the rest of the carbon brush holder device (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventor: Stefan Dorner
  • Patent number: 7224093
    Abstract: The electric machine includes a front end plate (13), a rear end plate (14), a rotor (4) installed between the said end plates, and a magnetic target (50) with axial or radial reading fixed onto a target holder installed between the rotor (4) and one of the said end plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Roger Abadia, Jean-Marc Dubus, Serge Masriera
  • Patent number: 7161272
    Abstract: A wire feeder for an electric arc welder comprising a set of feed rolls driven by a DC motor with a commutator, first and second opposite polarity leads receiving power to drive the motor, and having a first brush at a given position on the commutator and connected to the first lead, a second brush circumferentially spaced from the first brush a first annular distance around the commutator and connectable to the second lead to cause the motor to rotate at a first speed to drive the rolls at a first speed, a third brush circumferentially spaced from the first brush a second annular distance around the commutator and connectable to the second lead to cause the motor to rotate at a second speed to drive the rolls at a second speed, and a switching circuit with an operative condition to connect the second lead to a selected one of the second and third brushes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward A. Enyedy, Keith L. Clark
  • Patent number: 7005774
    Abstract: A rotary current-collecting device includes a rotary slip ring and brushes coming into sliding contact with the outer peripheral surface of the slip ring. The brush-holding ring has an inner surface to which three brush-holding springs are fixed by screws. Each of the brushes is fixed to the tip end of the brush-holding spring and is pushed against the outer surface of the slip ring under the resilient restoration force of the brush-holding spring. When the slip ring revolves, the brushes come into sliding contact with the outer peripheral surface of the slip ring. The brush is made of a metal-graphite compound consisting of 70 weight percent copper and 30 weight percent graphite. The slip ring is entirely made of glassy carbon, so that the brush abrasion can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Rigaku Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Kuribayashi, Tomohiro Chaki
  • Patent number: 6933632
    Abstract: A turning-pivoting commutating rotary switch (1) with brush guides (2) for reversing the direction of rotation of a universal motor, which has two stator contacts (3a, 3b) each making contact with a contact rail (5a, 5b) running partially peripherally at at least one contact point (4a, 4b, 4c), which are conducting connected with the two diametrically opposing brush guides (2), wherein a contact rail (5a) with two contact points (4a, 4b) extends over at least a half periphery and wherein both stator contacts (4a, 3b), at which at least one contact point (4a, 4b, 4c) can be rotatably switchable at a contact rail (5a, 5b) running partially peripherally, are arranged on only one side of the stator (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Georg Braml, Ernst-Rudolf Lübkert
  • Patent number: 6924577
    Abstract: A brush box assembly for use in an electric motor and an electric motor having a brush biasing mechanism that also retains the brushes to allow installation of a sliding electrical contact assembly is described. The brush box assembly has a plurality of brush holders each with a brush retention slot, a plurality of brushes each adapted to fit in the brush retention slots, the brushes having a contact face and a non-contact face, and a plurality of torsion springs each having a spring loading arm and a spring retention arm, each spring loading arm contacting one brush on the non-contact face and adapted to bias the brush against a sliding electrical contact after installation of the sliding electrical contact assembly, each spring retention arm adapted to contact one brush on the front side and retain the brush in the brush retention slot during installation of the sliding electrical contact assembly. A method of manufacture of a device having brushes with the biasing and retention mechanism is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Energy Conversion Systems Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Otway Archer Southall, Alvin Leon Farthing, Dan L. Shull
  • Patent number: 6864615
    Abstract: The electric machine includes a collector (60), a brush-holder assembly comprising an end cap (26) and a set of members (28, 30, 32, 34) for electrical connection equipped with guide cages (36, 38, 40, 42) suitable for accommodating a respective brush (44), in which a member (64) for limiting the radial displacement of the brushes in the absence of a collector is provided, the dimensions of the limiting member (64) being suitable for obtaining a tight fit of this member on the end cap (26). Application for the mounting of a brush holder for a motor-vehicle starter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Valeo Equipments Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Xavier Vacheron, José Izquierdo, Sébastien Perard, Yann Rouillard
  • Patent number: 6849986
    Abstract: An end cap 16 for a miniature electric pmdc motor has two fixed brush cages 36, 38 moulded integrally with the end cap and two separate brush cages 40, 42 which are attached to the end cap 16 during the assembly process. The angular separation of the fixed brush cages 36, 38 and the separate brush cages 40, 42 is determined during assembly so that the angle can be adjusted to suit the application of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventor: Ben To Fan Wong
  • Patent number: 6838802
    Abstract: A brush holder (100) for carrying a brush (102) and for providing adjustment of the brush relative to the commutator (104) of a dynamoelectric machine (105). The brush holder provides for adjustment of the gap (110) between the commutator and the brush, and for adjustment of the brush in the axial direction along the commutator. The brush holder also locks the brush at the desired position for operation in the dynamoelectric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventor: Avinash M. Tekawade
  • Publication number: 20040119370
    Abstract: A brush holder (100) for carrying a brush (102) and for providing adjustment of the brush relative to the commutator (104) of a dynamoelectric machine (105). The brush holder provides for adjustment of the gap (110) between the commutator and the brush, and for adjustment of the brush in the axial direction along the commutator. The brush holder also locks the brush at the desired position for operation in the dynamoelectric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Applicant: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventor: Avinash M. Tekawade
  • Patent number: 6661148
    Abstract: In a motor-driven tool, a carbon brush part 8 is arranged between a suction port 6 and a commutator 11 of the motor and includes a cylindrical side wall 8a. The cylindrical side wall 8a located on an outer periphery of the commutator 11 is provided with a tapered portion 8b which grows wider toward the commutator 11 and grows narrower toward a coil end 10 of the armature. Between the carbon brush part 8 and the coil end 10, there is provided a heat radiating plate 4 made of metal and adapted to be engaged with the carbon brush part 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Oomori, Chikai Yoshimizu, Masanori Watanabe, Shinki Ohtsu, Takuma Saito, Toshiyuki Nemoto
  • Patent number: 6559571
    Abstract: The invention concerns a brush system for a commutated DC motor. As the brush wears, different cross-sectional shapes, at different positions, come into contact with the commutator. The center of contact for each cross-sectional shape can be different, thereby changing brush angle as wear occurs. The change in brush angle can be desirable, in order to offset other effects which occur as a result of wear. For example, motor speed can change as a result of brush wear. Changing brush angle can offset the change in speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Valeo Electrical Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Harald Klode
  • Patent number: 6479918
    Abstract: The hand-held drilling and/or screwing implement has a housing with a handle, an electrical driving motor, a carbon brush holder ring and a switching body, which interacts rotationally locked with the carbon brush holder ring. At the carbon brush holder ring, two carbon brush holders are disposed opposite to one another and the switching body has an actuating element, which is disposed on the side opposite to the handle. With the help of an axial positive connection, the carbon brush holder ring can be fastened to the stator, so that it can be inserted together with the stator as a unit in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Burger, Lutz Troeder, Ernst-Rudolf Lübkert, Georg Brami
  • Patent number: 6356003
    Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, at least one bearing, a rotor, a stator, and a brush carrier. The bearing is located adjacent to the shaft. The rotor is interconnected to the shaft and magnetically interacts with the stator. The brush carrier is releasably interconnected to the rotor and/or stator such that the brush carrier can mechanically disconnect from the rotor and/or stator without disturbing a bearing and other motor elements. By disconnecting the brush carrier from an endbell and viewing the commutator surfaces through an endbell aperture, the commutator surfaces of the motor are inspected. Since more than one winding portion of the armature can act as a commutating surface, motor assembly is simplified and the motor has a long useful life. A motor including more than one brush carrier is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Inventors: John Fiorenza, Allen Jeske, Felix Belkin
  • Patent number: 6246146
    Abstract: An electrical direct current machine (10), which can be operated as a motor and as a generator and works according to the axial field principle. The machine has a rotor (26), which is rotatably mounted in a housing (12), has a plurality of electromagnets mounted at a distance from the axis of rotation, with in each case one coil winding (34) of a coil core (32) carrying one or more electrical conductors, the ends of the electrical conductors, forming the coil, being taken radially inward and being connected in an electrically conductive manner with, in each case, assigned contact elements having in each case one contact surface and, taken together, forming a commutator, on which contact elements sliding contacts (42) are pressed against a source or a consumer of direct current. At regular angular distances, pole faces of permanent magnets, with in each case opposite polarity in the circumferential direction, are provided consecutively on the insides of the housing end walls (14a; 14b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Inventor: Helmut Schiller
  • Patent number: 6232695
    Abstract: The invention concerns a brush system for a commutated DC motor. As the brush wears, different cross-sectional shapes, at different positions, come into contact with the commutator. The center of contact for each cross-sectional shape can be different, thereby changing brush angle as wear occurs. The change in brush angle can be desirable, in order to offset other effects which occur as a result of wear. For example, motor speed can change as a result of brush wear. Changing brush angle can offset the change in speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Valeo Electrical Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Harald Klode
  • Patent number: 6031313
    Abstract: In a brush holder device, in which an action-side end portion 22a of a torsion spring 22 is engaged with a torsion spring engaging groove 25 recessedly provided in an end surface of the brush 24 on the side opposite to a commutator 23, so that the elastic force of the torsion spring presses the brush against the commutator 23, a first inclined surface 26 is formed in the end surface of the brush 24 so as to incline at an angle of 15.degree. relative to a plane perpendicular to the axis of the brush, and second inclined surface 27 is formed in the engaging groove 25, being superposed on the first inclined surface 26. Further, a pigtail 28 is connected to the brush at an offset point relative to the engaging groove 25. Because of the second inclined surface, the torsion spring can suppress so-called "wild behavior" of the brush, and thereby, can prevent brush sound. The angle of inclination of the first inclined surface can be set at a small value, the brush can be molded using a molding die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Chikafumi Sugai, Susumu Aoki
  • Patent number: 5821663
    Abstract: Power supply is accomplished via two rails, which are arranged in one plane and which in each case have lugs, which can be bent out from the rail plane. In this case, contact arm of at least one lug is run away over a rail. In this way, a system which is quick to install and which, moveover, is quickly extended in the axial direction is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: ITT Automotive Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Gunther Kiehnle, Bernd Walther
  • Patent number: 5811904
    Abstract: In order to realize a permanent magnet dynamo electric machine which permits a high speed of rotation, the permanent magnet dynamo electric machine includes a stator 20 having a stator iron core 22 in which a stator winding 24 is wound, and a rotor 30 facing the inner circumference of the stator 20 and rotatably supported thereby, the rotor 30 having a rotor iron core 32 and a plurality of permanent magnets 36 arranged inside the rotor iron core 32 so as to face the stator iron core 22, wherein the rotor iron core 32 is provided with the same number of permanent magnet insertion holes 34 as the number of permanent magnets 36 for receiving the same at positions where the ratio R1/R0 is equal to or more than 0.85, wherein R0 is the radius of the rotor 30 and R1 is the radius of an imaginary circle drawn by inscribing the faces of the plurality of permanent magnets 36 at the side remote from the stator 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Tajima, Yutaka Matsunobu, Shouichi Kawamata, Suetaro Shibukawa, Osamu Koizumi, Keiji Oda
  • Patent number: 5691585
    Abstract: A terminal connector in an electric motor permits easy and smooth connection between a brush terminal and a power terminal by installing a case cover to a case frame. A support plate fixed to the case cover is divided into a terminal portion provided with a power terminal and an output shaft portion disposed on the output shaft side. The terminal portion is supported so that it is movable with respect to the output shaft portion. During assembly the terminal portion is movable to assure connection between the brush terminal and the power terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsuba Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Shoda
  • Patent number: 5539264
    Abstract: A brush device having a brush holding frame 320 made of an insulating material provided with a plurality of brush accommodating portions 320a, b which are open at their ends in the axial direction and at their inner peripheries in the radial direction, and a pair of protruded portions 320c at opposite outer ends in the radial direction. Brushes 305a, b are accommodated in the brush accommodating portions along with brush springs 308, press-contacting a commutator of a direct current machine. An insulation plate 321 touches an end face of the brush holding frame in the axial direction, covering the axial openings of the brush accommodating portion, and a pair of attaching pieces 309a, b are mounted on and pinch both end faces of the pair of protruded portions, thereby fixing the insulation plate to the end face of the brush holding frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Kuragaki, Shigeru Shiroyama
  • Patent number: 4857789
    Abstract: A rotary-type electromagnetic actuator for a toy includes a cylindrical magnetic stator fixedly mounted within a housing, a rotor arranged concentrically within the stator and rotatably supported by a shaft within the housing, a coil wound on the rotor for causing the rotor to rotate back and forth by being energized and deenergized, a commutator fixedly secured to the shaft of the rotor for supplying current to the coil, a rotor position-correcting member turnably provided inside the housing in opposition to the commutator and in concentric relation with respect to the housing, and a pair of current feeding brushes embracing the commutator from both sides thereof, each of the current brushes having one end secured to the position-correcting member and another end in pressing contact with a respective commutator bar of the commutator. The coil is energized by dc power supplied through the brushes and commutator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hanzawa Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshio Suimon
  • Patent number: 4785214
    Abstract: Brush rigging for a dynamoelectric machine such as an electric cranking motor for cranking an internal combustion engine. A support carries a plurality of radially extending brush holders each of which slidably supports a brush. The brushes are urged radially inwardly by an elastomeric band that is formed of electrical insulating material. The band directly engages the outer ends of the brushes and a plurality of pins that are carried by the support. The pins are located between pairs of brush holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey L. Mummert
  • Patent number: 4774430
    Abstract: The brush assembly for electrical motors comprises a housing cap (10) which consists of an insulating material and which closes the motor on its frontal end, the said cap's inner side (16) being provided with projections (7, 8) extending in parallel to the motor axis. These projections (7, 8) are penetrated by openings (12, 13) for the accommodation and fixation of elastic commutator brushes (1, 2). The contact lugs (32, 33) which can be inserted from the outside into the slot-shaped openings (12, 13) are coupled stationarily to the commutator brushes (1, 2) by virtue of a close-fit arrangement (36, 37) designed at the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Braun Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Emilio Rodriguez, Antonio Martinez
  • Patent number: 4746829
    Abstract: An improved brush gear assembly for use in a miniature motor. The brush gear assembly is mounted within the interior of the end cap of the motor and basically consists of three parts: a terminal element or fitting, a brush leaf element, and a brush. The terminal element consists of a generally planar brass part, a major part of which is defined as an elongated rectangular portion. One end of the rectangular portion defines a bending end. Near the bending end are disposed three staggered projections arranged generally in line adjacent to a transverse bending line formed on the rectangular portion. The leaf spring is formed from a substantially elongated planar copper strip, which has one end terminating in a bending portion. The remainder of the strip constitutes a spring portion and terminates at its other end in a brush receiving portion, which is reinforced by bending the sides in an upward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Johnson Electric Industry Manufactory, Limited
    Inventor: Georg Strobl
  • Patent number: 4638204
    Abstract: A hammer brush holder assembly can be easily fabricated and assembled by robot automation using only a few simple steps. The brush holder has at least two brush support arms swivel-mounted at one end in a brush rocker and pressed against a commutator by a tension spring via the brushes which are held at the other end of the brush rocker. The brush support arms with sleeve-shaped ends can be slipped axially onto lugs molded in an axial fashion to the brush rocker and locked in place. Both brush support arms are connected as parts of a single-piece plastic injection-molded component with an integral breakaway bridge segment which holds both brush support arms to a preselected mutual spacing. The breakaway bridge segment can be eliminated after installation of the hammer brush support assembly in the commutator motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Albert Kirchner, Juergen Schoen, Ortwin Happ
  • Patent number: 4602181
    Abstract: A brush holder assembly for use in an electric motor or generator has an insulating ring one side of which carries a set of several equidistant carriers for brushes which are biased in the radial direction of the ring to bear against a slip ring or against a commutator. Each carrier is radially adjustably secured to the ring by two screws or bolts and nuts whose shanks extend through two elongated slots provided in a flange-like extension of the carrier. Each extension has a tongue extending into a radial groove in the one side of the ring. The axial position of each carrier relative to the ring can be changed by inserting one or more shims between the extension and the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1986
    Inventors: Wolfgang Dietrich, Michael Dietrich
  • Patent number: 4536669
    Abstract: A d.c. motor comprises a cylindrical yoke, at least one set of field magnets of permanent magnets fixed to the inner peripheral surface of the yoke, an armature wound with armature windings so as to be surrounded by the field magnets, a commutator firmly mounted on a rotary shaft of the armature, a set of brushes being in slide-contact with the commutator, and a displacing means for shifting the position at which the brushes are made in slide-contact with the commutator in the counter direction of the rotation of the armature depending on rise in temperature of the d.c. motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Morishita
  • Patent number: 4475053
    Abstract: The essentially semi-circular busbar connecting oppositely located positive brushes is shiftably held in seating means provided in the positive brush-holders and in the intermediate negative brush-holder and has an offset extension which can be firmly screwed to the lug of an exciter winding while frictional forces between the busbar and the seating means yield and allow the busbar to take a position that compensates for the accumulation of manufacturing tolerances and results in the elimination of stresses which might otherwise damage the resistance welded connections of the Litz leads of the brushes to the busbar. When the brush-holders are of metal, the seating means involve a plastic insert in a bracket against which the brush-pressure springs bear and when the brush-holders are of insulating plastic, the seating means are provided by features molded onto the brush-holder, in which case it is desirable to provide a wire clip type of spring to bear against the busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Mayer
  • Patent number: 4404488
    Abstract: A brush board assembly for a dynamoelectric machine is provided with flexible electrically conductive brush carrying flat springs which are pinned to a ring-like mounting board in a manner effective to electrically connect the spring to printed circuitry on the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1983
    Assignee: The Singer Company
    Inventor: John A. Herr
  • Patent number: 4401908
    Abstract: A motor with a commutator, for example a traction motor, comprising brush-holders mounted on a ring adapted to rotate to bring them one by one opposite an inspection gate. The connection between these brush-holders and the fixed circuits is ensured by a system of split rings contacting on a blade, these rings being of clearly different diameters so that they are separated from one another except at their point of fixation. The supports of the brush-holders, the rings and the blades are identical and comprise a flat metal core with insulating coating working solely in compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: Societe L. Ferraz
    Inventor: Louis Cabaussel