Abstract: A miniature motor having a rotor comprising a commutator having locating projections formed on the commutator reference surface coming in contact with a rotor core, and a rotor core having thereon locating key holes for engaging with the locating projections; the commutator being fitted to the rotor core by engaging the locating projections with the locating key holes until the commutator reference surface comes in contact with the rotor core; in which each of the locating projections has a temporary insertion portion at the tip thereof, whose cross-section is smaller than the cross-section of the locating key hole, and a full insertion portion for engaging with the locating key hole; the full insertion portion has such a length that the commutator tongue of the commutator is located at a position higher than the height of the rotor windings in a state where the temporary insertion portion is inserted into the locating key hole.

Abstract: A brushless DC micromotor made up of a stator coil and a rotor housed inside thereof with magnet poles formed therein, which micromotor is characterized in that the stator coil is formed by coaxially winding more than one coil sheet formed on an insulating sheet, on which coil sheet a plurality of coil patterns are continuously provided in series in the direction of winding. The motor of the present invention can be made smaller, thinner and lighter than the conventional counterpart made by the use of a wound copper wire coil.

Abstract: A small synchronous motor is provided with a stator winding wound around a stator core. Conversion efficiency is improved by setting the ratio of the coil length (L) to the thickness between the center of the core and the outer most periphery of the coil (R) to be L/R to 40.

Abstract: A wristwatch comprises a watch movement having an outwardly curved frame portion, and a micro motor mounted on the watch movement. The micro motor comprises a curved magnetic core, a coil wound on the magnetic core, and a stator connected to the magnetic core to define therewith a closed magnetic flux path and having an opening therein in which a rotor is rotatably disposed. The magnetic core is curved outwardly with a curvature similar to and conforming to that of the outwardly curved frame of the watch movement, and the curved magnetic core overlies the curved frame of the watch movement so that no wasted space exists therebetween. The stator comprises a pair of stator pieces each connected at one end to a respective end portion of the curved magnetic core and the stator pieces have curved side edge portions extending at least partly along the curvature of said curved mangetic core to thereby form a compact overall assembly.

Abstract: A rotary drive apparatus includes: a bar yoke, a coil mounted on the bar yoke, and a cylindrical case, having a magnetic property for receiving the coil and the bar yoke therein. The cylindrical case has at least one salient-pole portion formed on the inside thereof in the vicinity of a portion where the coil is received. The rotary drive apparatus also includes a rotary member facing the salient-pole portion and spaced from the bar yoke and the salient-pole portion by a predetermined gap, so that the rotary member rotates between the bar yoke and the salient-pole portion, and is provided with at least one magnet having opposite magnetic polarities and arranged along the circumference of the rotary member and facing the salient-pole portion. The salient-pole portion, the magnet, and an end-of-the-yoke member form a magnetic circuit. The rotary member is rotated in response to magnetic flux generated at the end of the bar yoke by applying an electric current to the coil.

Abstract: A small sized motor comprises a core formed with numbers of bent pole-teeth at the periphery of the core and a single-flanged coil bobbin with its drum portion fitted onto the core at the outer periphery of said pole teeth to form a first bobbin assembly. The small sized motor further comprises second associated bobbin assembly. The pair of bobbin assemblies are coupled together in a back-to-back fashion. A pair of lead wire holding members are coupled to the outer periphery of the bobbin flange and are openable at hinge portions for winding a coil wire onto the bobbin.

Abstract: The Engine-Generator combination comprises a small internal-combustion engine, such as is used to power model vehicles, such as model airplanes, and a direct-current generator operatively coupled to the engine. The generator produces from four volts and one hundred and fifty milliamperes of current to one hundred volts and a current in excess of two hundred and fifty milliamperes, upon the engine being run at speeds of from three thousand revolutions per minute to twenty thousand revolutions per minute, where the generator has from six hundred turns of #36 gauge magnetic wire on each of the three poles thereof, to one thousand turns of #40 gauge magnetic wire on each of the three poles. The generator, driven by the engine provides its direct-current power to charge nicade batteries carried by, and used by a model vehicle in which the engine-generator is installed.

Abstract: A miniature D.C. motor for a toy allows the arrangement of a brush base in a housing of the motor to be readily and positively positioned to improve the manufacturing efficiency of the motor and to ensure the actuation of the motor without trouble for a long period of time.The motor includes a housing, a brush base which holds brushes therein and which detachably fits in the housing, and a detachable connection member for permitting a connection between the housing and the brush base. A motor further includes a commutator having an outer end formed into a truncated conical shape, wherein the brushes each are provided with a contact section having a convexly curved surface, to allow the outer end of the commutator to be pressedly interposed between the convexly curved surfaces of the brushes.

Abstract: A stepping motor isolated physically from electrical power sources and powered by the influence of a magnetic field applied from outside the apparatus, the stepping motor including a rotor and one or more stator elements, the stator elements being composed of magnetically soft and permeable material shaped and positioned with respect to the rotor so that when magnetized under the influence of the external field the stator elements strengthen and orient the magnetic field in their vicinities so as to cause movement of the rotor.

Abstract: An apparatus for performing a specified task within the human body has an implanted electromagnetic device for use in conjunction with an external electromagnetic field. The electromagnetic device includes a drive member which is a rotor of an electric motor. The drive member, when located within an electromagnetic field, will drive a pump to pump fluid from a reservoir such as to a pair of prosthesis cylinders implanted in the penis. The external electromagnetic field is an AC stator that has an aperture for positioning over the rotor, which is located in a sealed housing implanted in the scrotum.

Abstract: A synchronous motor device for a timepiece including a synchronous motor for the timepiece having a rotor with a pair of magnetized rotor poles around its circumference, a stator consisting of a pair of stator plates with a plurality of stator poles arranged around the vicinity of said rotor separated by an air gap, and an energizing coil supplying alternating magnetic flux to said stator.The synchronous motor for timepiece includes main stator poles, first supplementary stator poles and second supplementary stator poles.The main stator poles are further provided with both of the stator plates at the facing position against the rotor shaft and mainly forms the static stable position of the rotor. The first supplementary stator poles are facingly positioned against the rotor shaft and provided with both of the stator plates at separate positions from said main stator poles.

Abstract: The electromagnetic stepping motor of the invention comprises two rotors coupled to a common transmission wheel. The magnetic circuit of the stator is arranged so as to subject the respective rotors to fluxes of opposite senses .phi..sub.1, .phi..sub.2 when the winding is energized. The magnetization sense of the first rotor is opposite to the magnetization sense of the second rotor in a manner such that they turn in the same sense when subjected to said opposite sense fluxes. This arrangement permits either a diminution of the volume or a decrease in energy consumption of the motor and at the same time increases the security of running thereof in the presence of external magnetic fields. Such a motor is particularly adapted to small volume horological applications.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a small-sized, high-power micromotor with built-in cooling medium pipes for medical treatment. The motor which is structurally of the type wherein the stator of the motor includes a permanent magnet and a magnetic yoke encircling the magnet is improved in that the cooling medium pipes are incorporated into the motor by providing at least one cooling medium pipe receptor portion in the magnetic poles of the yoke or in the vicinity of the yoke without reducing motor performance nor increasing the diameter of the motor.

Abstract: A rotor of a coreless motor high in mechanical strength and durable against a high torque for a long time is provided. A non-metal disk member is provided for holding a cylindrically wound coil secured at its one axial end to the periphery of the disk in coaxial relation to a metallic rotary shaft coupled at one end to the disk member whereby the coupling force between the disk member and the rotary shaft is made high. The disk member and rotary shaft may be made into an integral body with the same metal material. Commutator segments for feeding a source current to the coil are provided on the disk member through an insulative layer.

Abstract: Leaf brushes for small electric motors having commutator slide surfaces for making electrical contact with a motor commutator and constructed so that a multiplicity of fine ridges are densely formed on the commutator slide surfaces.

Abstract: A small-size electromotor includes a stator and a rotor enclosed by a housing. In order to reduce weight and moment of inertia of the rotor and stator in the electric motor the rotor and the stator are formed of magnetic conductors assembled from iron sheets. The iron sheets are spaced from one another by layers of reduced magnetic conductivity, which may be layers of air or any other non-conductive material.

Abstract: A small electric motor wherein brushes are disposed on the contact surface of a commutator having a lubricant coated thereon at a predetermined angle with respect to the direction normal to a rotor rotating shaft so that the brushes plow through the lubricant film over a wide area while making slide contact with the commutator, whereby the contact resistance of the brushes is stabilized.

Abstract: A small shaded-pole motor comprises a rotor, stator core disposed in concentric relationship with the rotor, stator coils wound on the stator core and shading coils disposed in the vicinity of the stator core. The stator core consists of two generally rectangular plates each having a ring-shaped projection formed by stamping and swaging. The ring-shaped projections extend in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the plates. The height of the ring-shaped projections at their inner side is equal to about a half of the thickness of said rotor in its axial direction. The two plates are assembled together back to back so that their ring-shaped projections define a cylindrical space for the rotor. The stator coils are mounted on the portions of the back to back assembled plates other than their ring-shaped projections.

Abstract: A brush mounting structure of a miniature motor wherein brushes of the motor are fastened to bent end pieces of terminal plates, the terminal plates are fixed to a metallic bracket through a plastic film by means of insulating rivets, and the bracket is attached to an open surface of a case of the motor, whereby a soldering operation can be dispensed with.

Abstract: A single-phase step motor comprises a stator having a coil and a magnetic circuit composed of a core and a plate having a hole in which is disposed a rotor equipped with a permanent magnet. The plate has a slot in the area of the hole, whose width and the position of the axis line thereof are determined by the magnetic asymmetry of the stator poles, sufficient to produce required driving and positioning torques of the motor.

Abstract: A motor module for an analog display watch comprises a single mounting plate which is preferably formed by the stator 2 of the motor. The rotor 32 is mounted in the plate 2 by way of members 26 and 30 which form bearings for the rotor 32. The spindles 18, 22 and 24 for the hands are also mounted on the stator 2. Finally, the spindle 44 for gears 46, 47 and 48 between the rotor and the spindles for the hands passes through the stator 2.

Abstract: A brushless electric micromotor comprised of a rotor, a shaft and a tube-like part and permanent magnets rotatably mounted and hermetically sealed in a rotor housing, said shaft being supported in bearings. The permanent magnets have their co-axial surfaces coated with a layer of an electrically conductive metal. The micromotor further comprises a stator co-axially surrounding the rotor housing and comprising field windings regularly arranged with equal angular distances in the stator housing made of magnetic material.

Abstract: A stator comprises a one-piece U-shaped stator sheet having a pair of elongate parallel legs. The legs form pole shoe bridges at their front ends for their reception of a driven motor. At least one of the pole shoe bridges interconnects the legs adjacent their front ends. A coil-carrying bobbin is mounted on one of the legs, the length of the wound coil being longer than its diameter. A separate yoke sheet is fastened to the legs adjacent rear ends thereof to secure the bobbin on the leg. The stator is formed by first stamping-out a stamping which includes the parallel legs and the yoke, with the yoke being integrally attached to the legs by means of webs. After the stamping undergoes the usual pretreatment, the yoke sheet is separated from the legs, whereupon the coil bobbin is slipped onto the leg from the rear. Then, the yoke sheet is secured to the rear ends of the legs to prevent removal of the coil bobbin.

Abstract: Assembly of a small electric motor is facilitated by pre-assembling each coil with a support bearing and a corresponding pole piece, as well as with the cylindrical magnetic coil housing. Each support bearing includes a pair of radially-extending hooks which engage corresponding edges on the inner bore of each coil to properly align the components. The thusly pre-assembled stator sub-assembly may be inverted to receive the rotor assembly.

Abstract: A small motor has a substantially disc-shaped rotor body carried by a rotor shaft and provided with a plurality of coils, a substantially doughnut-shaped permanent magnet disposed in close proximity of one side face of the rotor body, and a commutator mounted on the part of the rotor shaft in the aperture of the permanent magnet. The part of each coil adjacent to the commutator is bent away from the stationary magnet to provide a recess through which the coil end can be led to increase the effective length of the coil to increase the torque without increasing the distance between the stationary magnet and the rotor body or significantly increasing the dimensions of the motor as a whole.

Abstract: A d.c. electric motor wherein the permanent magnets are kept in place by elastic fastening means carrying out an active magnetic function. The fastening means preferably includes yoke sectors each formed by two or more superimposed sheet members having angular extensions progressively decreasing. The motor further includes an anti-inductive frame formed by at least two equally spaced apart longitudinal portions and by one or more transverse portions forming an open or closed path respectively of material that is electrically conductive but not ferromagnetic. The frame further provides a housing for a temperature sensor in a recess and an insulating tubular envelope.

Abstract: Two-component, permanent field magnets are located opposite the armature and protrude beyond the armature core at both axial ends. The flux yield of the field magnets is improved in comparison with conventional two-component magnets by positioning a section (14) of highly coercive magnetic material (2) at the trailing edge, with an axial length only of substantially the axial length (1.sub.A) of hte armature core, and placing protruding portions (16), protruding axially beyond (1.sub.M) the armature core (10) of a highly remanent magnetic material (1).

Abstract: Motor-driven movement for timepieces wherein stator block core is formed in ring-shape with a magnetic material of a rounded bar, magnetic poles formed at both core ends are disposed as directed radially inward of the core and rotary shaft of minute hand wheel of output gear train meshing with a rotor disposed between the poles is radially displaced from the center of the core to the side opposite the magnetic poles, whereby internal space of the ring-shaped core having a coil wound thereon is efficiently utilized for arranging all internal components substantially within dimensions of the coil and minimizing the entire size of the movement.

Abstract: A model vehicle, say of the road racing type, movable along a track having magnetically permeable rails, the vehicle including an electric motor wherein the field magnets are mounted in a non-magnetic casing or yoke to permit maximum magnetic coupling of the field magnets with the rails to exert a downward force on the vehicle toward the track.

Abstract: The watch casing 102 is made of plastics material. The stator 2 of the motor serves at the same time as the support for the rotor 32 and as a plate for the spindles 18, 22, 24 for the hands and the gear train 48, 46, 47, 20. The printed circuit 304 is secured to the bottom 104 of the casing by heat-sealing. The cell is housed in a chamber 262 disposed in a thick portion of the bottom of the casing.

Abstract: A stator for a stepping motor comprises a cylindrical coil of compact size formed by winding wire directly on the center portion of a core. This center portion is coated with a film formed of a hard, compact insulating material adhering strongly to the core. An electrophoresis operation is used to obtain a film of minimum thickness in an efficient manner. The core includes end lugs which are bare on one face so that metallic contact can be established with the pole pieces of the stator. Prior to electrophoresis, the faces of the lugs intended to be bare are covered with a mask of synthetic material, preferably deposited while dissolved in a suitable solvent.

Abstract: A step motor comprising a stator made by bending a bar-shaped and magnetically highly permeable material into a substantially U-shape which is straight in one leg and curved in the other leg so that the magnetic flux distribution accompanying the curved leg will have a single ridge and the nearest and second nearest distances g.sub.1 and g.sub.2 of the curved leg from a rotor and the distance g.sub.3 between the straight leg and the rotor will maintain such relations as 1.2.ltoreq.g.sub.2 /g.sub.1 .ltoreq.1.8 and 2.1.ltoreq.g.sub.3 /g.sub.1 .ltoreq.3.5, the stator being secured to a main plate as inserted at the curved leg partly into a groove made in the main plate. A part of the curved leg defining the distance g.sub.1 is made to be a tip end part of the curved leg, the width at a part of the groove in which the tip end part of the curved leg is inserted to be secured to the main plate is made to be of the stator width and the groove width at other parts is made comparatively larger than the stator width.

Abstract: A single-phase step motor comprises a stator having a coil, a core and a plate featuring a hole forming poles of the stator, and a rotor having a permanent magnet and a shaft. The rotor is installed in supports. The poles of the stator, which are magnetically asymmetric, are connected by straps. The rotor and the supports thereof are accommodated inside a capsule made as a body and a cover and placed in the hole of the plate. The capsule is provided with an external cylindrical boss coaxial with the rotor, whereas the body of the capsule is provided with a bearing flange which positions the rotor in relation to the poles of the stator.

Abstract: Arcuate permanent magnets are inserted into the bore hole of a stator intended for use in an electric machine which is excited by permanent magnets. Spring elements, inserted into recesses in the wall of the bore between the magnets, have spring arms which are connected to each other via a back part and which rest against axially extending lateral edges of the permanent magnets. To insure retention of the permanent magnets against high mechanical shock stresses without connecting the spring elements to the stator, the spring elements are provided with extensions, formed on their back parts, which frictionally engage undercuts in the recesses. The spring arms themselves extend around the lateral edges of the permanent magnets in a form-locking manner.

Abstract: An economical, miniature electric motor exhibiting improved efficiency and in-specification, first-use performance after substantial periods of non-use, which is especially suited for operating the film eject mechanism of a self-developing camera, includes single piece, base metal brushes, a plain bore armature bearing in the commutator end cap, and a fibrous wicking material containing a supply of commutation enhancing lubricant bearing against the commutator to provide a supply of the lubricant thereto which minimizes brush friction while enhancing electrical conduction therebetween. Additionally, migration of the commutator lubricant along the rotor shaft into the plain bore journal in the motor end cap is encouraged to provide a supply of surface lubricant for the journal.

Abstract: A flat motor comprises a rotor including a shaft and a plurality of coils arranged concentric with the shaft and each said coil being constituted by a winding having a predetermined diameter, the position of the end of the winding being set at a predetermined distance from the shaft, a magnet having a doughnut-like form with the inner periphery thereof spaced apart from the shaft by a distance smaller than said predetermined distance, and a connector plate provided on the rotor and extending between the rotor and magnet, having a thickness at least smaller than the predetermined diameter of the coil winding. The end of the winding of each coil is electrically connected to the connector plate.

Abstract: A single-phase step micromotor comprising a stator wherein cylindrical surfaces of a pair of pole pieces face each other. Interposed between said pole pieces is a double-pole rotor. Arranged between the stator and rotor is a rotor fixing means in the form of a ring, the thickness of which is less than that of said pole pieces, and the inner diameter of the ring varies along the angular coordinate of the stator.

Abstract: A small electric motor whose small case has a through hole through which a motor terminal can be taken out is disclosed. A first slot which is right-angled longitudinally to the through hole and extends to the side face of the small motor case is provided in the end of the small motor case where an opening of the through hole is provided, and a second slot extended from the first slot is provided in the side face of the small motor case. Furthermore, a first kick is provided in the bottom of the first slot and a second kick is in the side face of the second slot.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a miniature stepping motor 10 for a watch movement comprising a rotor 12 and a stator 11 pierced with a circular opening in which the rotor is located. A reinforcing band 18 surrounds the rotor concentrically and is pressed into the circular opening of the stator. This band 18 consists of a hollow cylindrical part 19 and an annular part 20 which closes at least partially the tubular piece constituting the band 18. A central opening in the annular part 20 provides a housing for the bearing 16 of the rotor axle.This band ensures a double function: that of making the stator rigid and that of centering the rotor.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine is provided with a frame structure consisting of at least two fabricated sheet metal pieces of identical shape and size. The sheet metal members are formed to provide cavities to accommodate an armature structure and bearings, and the opposed sheet metal pieces enclose and support the armature and bearing when fixed together. The sheet metal pieces also support preferably a ceramic magnet field by providing formed bosses and tabs for locating and holding the magnets in position. If additional low reluctance flux path is required, a tubular jacket may be placed over the sheet metal housing. The bearings are preferably spherical bearings, and the invention contemplates providing the sheet metal pieces with formed bearing retaining areas and having grooves to retain a fibrous lubricant containing material formed either in the retaining areas or the bearings or both.

Abstract: A coreless rotary electric appliance comprising a rotary coil of a cup-shaped coil body open at an end face thereof which is composed of inclined coil wire portions wound with a determined angle along the cylindrical periphery of said coil body and of end connecting wire portions arranged on one end face of said coil body to connect said coil wire portions in succession whereby said coil body being formed by a continuous wire composed of said coil wire portions connected in succession by said end connecting portions, whereby said coil body being featured by an asymmetrical structure that two coil wire portions connected to both ends of each end connecting wire portion and wound along the cylindrical periphery of said coil body are provided with different inclination angles with respect to the generatrix of said cylindrical surface of the coil body.

Abstract: A stator for a stepping motor comprises a cylindrical coil of compact size formed by winding wire directly on the center portion of a core. This center portion is coated with a film formed of a hard, compact insulating material adhering strongly to the core. An electrophoresis operation is used to obtain a film of minimum thickness in an efficient manner. The core includes end lugs which are bare on one face so that metallic contact can be established with the pole pieces of the stator. Prior to electrophoresis, the faces of the lugs intended to be bare are covered with a mask of synthetic material, preferably deposited while dissolved in a suitable solvent.

Abstract: A housing for a small electrical machine, particularly a small electric motor, forms a part of the magnetic circuit of the same and is composed of a cylindrical wall of a magnetoconductive material and a sheet-metal strip which is also constituted by a magnetoconductive material and is bent about the cylindrical wall. A method of manufacturing of the housing includes the steps of bending a sheet-metal band so as to form the cylindrical wall, and bending the sheet-metal strip about the thus-bent sheet-metal band so that the latter serves as a mandrel. The sheet-metal band may be bent on a primary mandrel and temporarily retained on the latter so that the sheet-metal strip is then bent about the band when the latter is still retained on the primary mandrel. End portions of the sheet-metal band and the sheet-metal strip may be connected with one another along the same generatrix of the cylindrical wall.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece comprising a step-motor including a stator and rotor is disclosed. The timepiece is so constructed and arranged that a coil winding core of the stator is located between the stator and a dial of the timepiece and that said stator is disposed on said coil winding core.

Abstract: In an electronic timepiece motor, a one-piece stator of magnetic material having a hole therethrough bounded by a circumferential sidewall and defining a pair of stator portions connected by narrow bridges having small cross sections. The narrow bridges define a magnetic circuit of high magnetic resistance between the stator portions. A non-magnetic reinforcing ring is disposed within the hole through the one-piece stator and has an outer diameter effective to insure a snug fit of the reinforcing ring with the circumferential sidewall defining the hole through the stator. The reinforcing ring imparts stiffness to the one-piece stator to prevent deformation of the bridges and the hole. The reinforcing ring has a peripheral reinforcing flange extending outwardly and with the flange bearing against the one-piece stator adjacent the hole therethrough for imparting additional stiffness to the one-piece stator.

Abstract: A miniature electric motor having substantially identical stator halves which are connected together by lugs axially interengaging on the circumference of the stator.The lugs of the stator halves resiliently engage in pairs on a common plane between ribs formed on a plastics material ring which is located inside the stator halves and which also forms an outer protective casing for the coils and the rotor parts of the motor. The lugs may be slotted at their free ends to provide resilient shanks.

Abstract: A stepping motor comprising a plurality of stages which may be selectively activated to effect stepping movement of the motor, and which are mounted along a common rotor shaft to achieve considerable reduction in motor size and minimum diameter, whereby sequential activation of the stages results in successive rotor steps with direction being determined by the particular activating sequence followed.

Abstract: The motor comprises a rotor, first and second stators surrounding the rotor and a common exciting coil for the stators. The rotor is provided with a plurality of spaced pole pairs of alternate polarities of an odd number equal to or larger than 5. The first and second stators are respectively provided with semicircular portions which face each other and the centers of these semicircular portions are displaced from the axis of rotation of the rotor such that the semicircular portions will be point symmetrical with respect to the axis of rotation. Main pole pieces are provided for respective semicircular portions at the adjacent portions thereof and interpole pieces are located adjacent the main pole pieces which are located closest to the rotor. Notches are formed between adjacent main and interpole pieces.

Abstract: A micro stepping motor for use in compact watches and the like comprises a magnetic core, a coil winding wound on the magnetic core, and a stator formed as one rigid body and connected to the magnetic core to define therewith a closed magnetic flux path. The stator has a necked portion along its length and a hole extends through the stator at the center portion of the necked portion. A rotor having at least one pair of magnetic poles is rotatably disposed within the stator hole with an air gap therebetween. The rotor rest position is determined by either a protrusion on the stator extending into the air gap forming a region of minimum reluctance or a recess in the stator opening into the air gap forming a region of maximum reluctance for the rotor flux.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece including a battery, a drive motor, a drive, a display, and electronic circuits for driving said motor. The motor is a pulse motor and comprises a core, coil, yoke and rotor. The rotor includes a worm gear having worm teeth which engage with a gear wheel. The teeth on the worm gear are arranged and configured such that the initial and final portions of each tooth which engage with the gear wheel are parallel to the plane of rotation of the rotor thereby preventing torque applied to the gear wheel from being transmitted to the rotor.