Supports Patents (Class 310/91)
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Publication number: 20110285228Abstract: There is provided a holding structure to hold a vibration motor on a circuit board with a sufficient holding strength using an inexpensive and simple means such as caulking and bonding and a vibration motor held on a circuit board using the holding structure. The holding structure having a holder clamps a vibration motor body having an eccentric weight at an end of the rotation shaft around the outer periphery from the outside and supports the vibration motor at the lower part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: Minebea Motor Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Mikio UMEHARA, Kazuaki SATO, Daichi KADOWAKI
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Publication number: 20110278964Abstract: A vehicle windshield wiper motor including an output shaft and an attachment device for attaching a mounting structure onto a tube, the attachment device including an attachment base and a plate. The base includes at least five attachment members for attaching parallel rods therebetween, three attachment members forming a first group being spaced around the output shaft of the motor, and two attachment members forming a second group being placed at a sufficient distance from at least one of the three attachment members of the first group to form a cavity capable of holding the tube, the cavity being closable by the plate. A mounting structure can mount such a windshield wiper motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2009Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: RENAULT S.A.S.Inventor: Pascal Verneuil
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Patent number: 8056211Abstract: The apparatus of the present invention provides a stator for an electric motor. The apparatus includes a plurality of stator components assembled together to form a generally annular stator core. A wire is wrapped around at least a portion of the stator core to form a stator winding. A first generally annular end plate and a second generally annular end plate are mounted to axially opposite sides of the stator core such that the stator core is axially trapped and retained therebetween. A fastener applies a clamping load to the first and second end plates such that the stator core is compressed therebetween. The clamping load from the fastener is applied directly to the first and second end plates which distribute the clamping load to the stator core such that the plurality of components are held together without the fastener directly applying the clamping load to the stator core. A corresponding method for providing a stator is similarly provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2007Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Alan G. Holmes, Richard A. Ordo, Ahmed M. El-Antably
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Patent number: 8058759Abstract: An inner-rotor-type motor includes a housing, a stator, a rotor and a bearing seat. The stator is received in an assembly space of the housing. The rotor is rotatably positioned in the housing via a bearing and extends through a through-hole of the stator. The bearing seat includes a socket having a first recess and a second recess and couples to the assembly opening of the assembly space. A stopper is at least a part of the upper wall of the socket and arranged between the first recess and the second recess. The bearing can pass through an end of the socket and be positioned in the first recess, while a circuit board can pass through another end of the socket and be positioned in the second recess. Accordingly, the assembly is simplified, and the assembly convenience is improved.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Alex Horng, Cheng-Te Liu, Duo-Nian Shan
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Publication number: 20110273045Abstract: A method for installing a rotor of an electrical machine is disclosed. The method comprises using axially directed guide bars (107-109) for keeping the rotor (102) centered with respect to a bore of a stator (101) during the installation of the rotor. The rotor has sliding surfaces so that it can be slid in the axial direction to its final position along the guide bars. The mechanical support structure (104) that supports bearings (105, 106) of the rotor are provided with supporting surfaces for being able to give mechanical support to the guide bars. The mechanical support structure (104) may comprise for example threaded holes to which threaded ends of the guide bars can be tightened. After the rotor has been moved to its final position and it is supported by the bearings, the guide bars are removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicants: MOVENTAS WIND OY, THE SWITCH DRIVE SYSTEM OYInventors: Tuomas Vuolle-Apiala, Jorma Tirkkonen, Ville Pakarinen, Jari Toikkanen, Olli Liukkonen, Jorma Mustalahti, Ilkka Martikainen
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Patent number: 8051580Abstract: The present invention relates to a dryer motor assembly support that limits or eliminates cabinet vibration and noise. The dryer comprises a cabinet comprising a floor having an outside peripheral portion, and a central portion with four openings. The dryer further comprises a motor assembly, having a motor and motor mount comprising a base, spaced above the openings. A support assembly for supporting the motor assembly comprises two parallel spaced apart support portions each spaced below and spanning across the central portion, passing beneath the openings. Each support portion has oppositely disposed end portions secured with the peripheral portion. Each support portion comprises two projections extending therefrom toward the base. Each projection passes through a corresponding one of the openings with clearance to secure the support portion with the base, isolating the motor. The motor and support assembly, and the openings are co-located away from the central portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2008Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Mabe Canada Inc.Inventors: Pierre-André Bruneau, Jamie Roy, Dominique Larochelle
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Publication number: 20110254397Abstract: A positioning structure for a stator assembly of a fan motor has a fan base and a stator assembly. The fan base has a central hub projected thereon for connecting to one end of an axial tube. The fan base is further formed with a plurality of first engagement portions surrounding a hub base of an outer peripheral surface of the central hub. The stator assembly has an axial hole sleeved on the axial tube and a plurality of second engagement portions which can be engaged with the first engagement portions. Thus, the stator assembly can be rapidly and stably installed on the fan base.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2010Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: ADDA CORPORATIONInventor: CHEN-JUNG CHUANG
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Patent number: 8035262Abstract: A drive unit includes a motor being a drive source, a velocity reduction gear for reducing the revolution of the motor, an output shaft for connecting the velocity reduction gear to the rotation shaft of a photosensitive drum, and a velocity detection mechanism including an encoder and sensor members and detecting the revolution of the output shaft. The velocity reduction gear and the velocity detection mechanism are placed in a unit housing including a housing body made of a resin with one end opened and a support plate made of metal closing the opening of the housing body, and the output shaft is rotatably supported by the housing body and the support plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Kyocera Mita CorporationInventors: Hiroyoshi Omura, Yuuya Shimohara
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Patent number: 8030815Abstract: A brushless motor to be used for driving a vane pump, which is employed in a module for inspecting vapor leakage of fuel, is disclosed. The brushless motor includes a mounting plate having a through hole, and an annular space is formed between an inner wall of the through hole and an outer wall of a projection of a motor housing. This annular space allows preventing a welding current from flowing into the projection.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2006Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Minebea Motor Manufacturing CorporationInventor: Michihiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 8018107Abstract: A brushless motor includes a substantially flat attachment plate and a circuit board. The attachment plate includes a plurality of motor attachment portions and a base portion arranged to interconnect the motor attachment portions. The circuit board is arranged on an upper surface of the base portion and includes a first area to which electronic parts are attached. The upper surfaces of the motor attachment portions are arranged higher than the upper surface of the base portion. The height of the upper surface of the circuit board in the first area is substantially equal to or greater than the height of the upper surfaces of the motor attachment portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2009Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventors: Nobuaki Yasumoto, Hitoshi Takaki, Masahiro Yamada, Yosuke Kawano
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Publication number: 20110215666Abstract: A stator assembly structure of a rotary electrical machine for assembling a stator on a case includes the stator including a stator holder and a stator core, the stator holder including a flange portion that includes a plurality of positioning bores arranged at intervals and a fixing portion fixing the stator to the case, the case including a positioning pin having an outer diameter smaller than a diameter of each of the positioning bores and being engageable with each of the positioning bores, the case further including a fixing seat, and each of the positioning bores including at least three bending portions that extend from a peripheral edge of the positioning bore towards a radially inward side, each of the bending portions being formed to be bent at a portion in a length direction from the peripheral edge towards the radially inward side relative to the flange portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masafumi Sakuma, Tomohiro Sato
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Publication number: 20110215665Abstract: A fan includes a bracket, a stator, and a rotor. The bracket includes a tray, and a frame circling the tray. The stator is mounted to the tray and circled by the frame. The rotor includes a shaft, and a shell covering the stator. The rotor shell includes a top board, and a cylindrical hollow sleeve extending down perpendicularly from the top board. The shaft extends down perpendicularly from a center of the top board, and is rotatably mounted to the stator. A lower portion of the sleeve bounds a circumference of the tray. An assembly clearance is formed between the lower portion of the sleeve and the tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2010Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD ., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: XU-SHENG HAN
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Patent number: 8013486Abstract: There is provided a holding structure to hold a vibration motor on a circuit board with a sufficient holding strength using an inexpensive and simple means such as caulking and bonding and a vibration motor held on a circuit board using the holding structure. The holding structure having a holder clamps a vibration motor body having an eccentric weight at an end of the rotation shaft around the outer periphery from the outside and supports the vibration motor at the lower part.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Minebea Motor Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Mikio Umehara, Kazuaki Sato, Daichi Kadowaki
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Publication number: 20110198956Abstract: A stator comprises a ferromagnetic core having teeth. The stator also comprises first and second insulator members. The first and second insulating members collectively encircle each of the teeth of the core. The first insulating member comprising a plurality of mounting bosses spaced circumferentially from each other about the axis. Each of the mounting bosses has first and second retaining surfaces. The first and second retaining surfaces face axially opposite directions from each other and are exposed and are unobstructed by the second insulating member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.Inventors: Daniel E. Bailey, Daniel E. Hilton, Gary E. Horst
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Patent number: 7992465Abstract: A drive unit (10) actuates drives in a motor vehicle with a first housing part (12), in particular a pole pot (12), and a second housing part (14), in particular a gear housing or electronic housing (14, 15), which can be connected with connecting elements (40), wherein the first housing part (12) features receptacles (38) for the connecting elements (40), wherein the receptacles (38) are embodied as centering holes (36) for corresponding centering pins (48), which are arranged on the second housing part (14).Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Walter Haussecker, Stefan Freund, Thomas Huck, Markus Ochs
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Patent number: 7990004Abstract: A reduction drive device is compact, hardly causes an electric motor thereof to vibrate, and has improved noise/vibration controllability. The reduction drive device includes the electric motor attached to a casing and capable of outputting torque, first and second reduction mechanisms supported by the casing, to reduce and transmit the rotational output of the electric motor, and a rear differential supported by the casing, to distribute the rotational output reduced by the first and second reduction mechanisms to a pair of axle shafts. Rotor, stator, and brush of the electric motor partly overlap the rear differential when seen in a rotation radius direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2006Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: GKN Driveline Torque Technology KKInventors: Masashi Aikawa, Masayuki Sayama, Yoshiyuki Nakabayashi
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Patent number: 7986067Abstract: A brushless motor is smaller, flatter, and lighter but is easy to assemble and has reduced motor vibration. An attachment base is integrally molded by two-color extrusion molding using a first resin material that forms a base main portion and a second resin material that forms a support portion and is softer than the first resin material.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2009Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Shinano Kenshi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tadashi Yano, Akihito Fukuzawa
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Publication number: 20110169362Abstract: A DC motor is disclosed which includes a motor housing and at least one connection module adapted to be installed on the motor housing. The DC motor can be compact, flexibly adaptable to customer requirements and also easily installable in the case of a confined installation space. For this purpose, the motor housing can include a front-sided centering elevation or centering recess which cooperates with a centering recess or a centering elevation on the connection module. The connection module can be freely rotatable in a mounting state on the motor housing, and non-rotatably connected to the motor housing in the mounted state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: Maxon Motor AGInventor: Arnold TEIMEL
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Publication number: 20110169361Abstract: A polygon motor. The polygon motor includes a rotor casing for loading a magnetic disc or an optical disc thereon, a rotatable shaft fitted into the rotor casing and supporting the rotor casing, a bearing rotatably supporting the rotatable shaft and having a hollow cylindrical shape, a stator producing an electric field for rotating the rotor casing, and a shock absorbing member provided at a location below the bearing and relieving external shock.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventor: Sang Hwan PARK
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Publication number: 20110169360Abstract: A transmission having an electric motor/generator includes a transmission housing and a bearing support rigidly connected to the transmission housing and substantially enclosed by the transmission housing. A stator housing is substantially enclosed by the transmission housing, and is rigidly joined to the bearing support by a plurality of rivets, such that torque may be transferred between the stator housing and bearing support. The stator housing may be formed from a first material, and the bearing support may be formed from a second material, different from the first material. The stator housing and bearing support meet at an interface region, which may be characterized by an absence of a welded connection between the stator housing and the bearing support. The interface region may be characterized as a slip fit, such that the stator housing and bearing support are matable by hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Timothy J. Reinhart, Joel E. Mowatt, Randy Lewis Melanson, John H. Price
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Patent number: 7977835Abstract: A cooling module includes a shroud (38) having an integral cover (42). The cover receives a bearing structure (40). A fan (36) is provided for moving air. A rotor and stator assembly (30) has an opened end and includes a stator (29) having permanent magnets. A rotor (31) includes a lamination stack (16), windings (21), a commutator (20); and a shaft (18). The rotor is associated with the stator so as to rotate with respect thereto. One end (34) of the shaft is coupled with the fan and another end (39) of the shaft is received by the bearing structure. A brush and connector unit (52) is associated with the cover of the shroud and includes brushes (58) associated with the commutator, and an electrical connector (62). The cover covers the opened end of the rotor and stator assembly and covers at least a portion of a brush and connector unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, WĂ¼rzburgInventors: Attila Simofi-Ilyes, Paul Stephen McLennan, Andrew Lakerdas
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Patent number: 7976292Abstract: An inner-rotor-type heat dissipating fan includes a fan housing, a seal casing, an inner-rotor-type motor, an impeller and a circuit board. The fan housing includes an outer frame portion and a motor casing. The seal casing is a hollow housing made of magnetically conductive material. One end of the seal casing forms a connecting portion coupling to the motor casing. The inner-rotor-type motor is mounted inside the seal casing. The impeller is coupled to the inner-rotor-type motor and outside the seal casing. The circuit board is electrically connected to the stator. By this configuration, rotation stability of the impeller is enhanced by the inner-rotor-type motor, airflow generated by rotation of the impeller is effectively concentrated and guided by the fan housing, and a sealing effect for avoiding magnetic flux leakage is provided by the seal casing. Consequently, heat dissipating efficiency is enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2008Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Alex Horng, Tso-Kuo Yin
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Publication number: 20110162553Abstract: A motor or generator housing for electric traction including a cast housing body with cast or welded fastening areas circumferentially spaced on the envelope surface adapted to be mounting areas for attachment lugs, safety noses, air duct channels or terminal boxes. A bogie attachment device and a safety nose device adapted to be fixed to a motor housing is also contemplated. The devices have attachment areas formed to attach and be fixable to the attachment areas of the motor housing. A motor or generator including such housing is further contemplated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2011Publication date: July 7, 2011Inventors: Peter Isberg, Per-Olof Lindberg
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Publication number: 20110148119Abstract: An apparatus for wind energy conversion includes a nacelle having a main frame, the main frame having a lower part and an upper part joined to the lower part, the upper part having a first strap extending across the lower part; a stator disposed within the nacelle; a rotor disposed within the nacelle; a mounting surface attached to the main frame and defining a rotor space, the mounting surface having a first side-face that exposes the rotor space; and a flange rotatably supported on the main frame and including a first end connected to the rotor. The rotor is cantilevered from the flange into the rotor space from the first side face.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: AMSC Windtec GmbHInventors: Martin Fischer, Anton Wolf, Michael Schwarz
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Patent number: 7960884Abstract: An axial gap rotating machine rigidly fixing permanent magnets without reducing magnetic flux and having a high output has: a housing; a rotating shaft rotatably supported in the housing; two rotors having disks rotatably integral with the rotating shaft, and permanent magnets arranged concentrically in spaced relation to each other on at least one side of surfaces of the rotating disks in spaced relation to each other on at least one side of surfaces of the rotating disks in spaced relation to each other; and a stator arranged between the rotors, spaced from the rotors and fixed to the housing, the stator having a plurality of coils disposed concentrically around the rotating shaft spaced from each other; wherein magnetic flux generated from the permanent magnets of the rotors intermittently penetrates the interior of each of the coils as the shaft rotates, wherein the rotating disk has a concave portion in the surface facing the stator in which the permanent magnets are disposed so as to protrude.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Miyata, Naoki Watanabe, Masakatsu Honshima
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Patent number: 7960879Abstract: An airplane engine accessory box carrying an electrical machine such as an alternator, having a rotor that is guided in rotation in a bearing carried by a support part made of a material having a low coefficient of thermal expansion, itself carried by a stator cover that acts as a heat bridge between the body of the stator of the electrical machine and the casing of the accessory box.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Hispano SuizaInventors: Vincent Abousleiman, Hugues Henri Raymond Linet
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Publication number: 20110133588Abstract: A modular life extension kit is configured to extend a useful life of a support frame for a wind turbine generator. The support frame includes a support member coupled to a support cross-member. The support member has a first length, and the support cross-member has a second length. The modular life extension kit includes a plurality of plates configured to be coupled to the support frame. At least a first plate of the plurality of plates has a first side configured to be coupled to the support member and a second side configured to be coupled to the support cross-member. The first side extends at least five percent of the first length and the second side extends at least five percent of the second length.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2009Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: John P. Davis, James Antalek, Chad Robert Conrad
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Patent number: 7956502Abstract: The present invention enables replacement work of a wiper motor to be carried out with a link plate being fixed to an output shaft, and achieves improvement of maintainability. A diameter dimension of a through-hole of a motor bracket is set to that of allowing a tip side of a link plate with a ball joint to pass through the through-hole in a state where the link plate is inclined with respect to the motor bracket. Thus, the replacement work of the wiper motor can be carried out with the link plate being fixed to the output shaft. Alignment work of the link plate with respect to the output shaft becomes unnecessary at a time of the replacement work of the wiper motor, and maintainability can be significantly improved without decreasing positional accuracy of wiper members with respect to a front glass.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: MITSUBA CorporationInventors: Masatoshi Nakamura, Masahiro Nakazato
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Publication number: 20110115312Abstract: Disclosed herein is a brushless DC motor. The brushless DC motor includes a rotating shaft, a bearing, an integrated washer holder, a rotor casing, a stator and a support plate. The bearing rotatably supports the rotating shaft in the radial direction. The integrated washer holder supports the lower end of the rotating shaft and the circumferential outer surface of the bearing. The rotor casing integrally rotates along with the rotating shaft. A rotor magnet is attached to the inner surface of the rotor casing. The stator is provided around the circumferential outer surface of the integrated washer holder such that the stator faces the rotor magnet. Thus, when external electric power is applied to the stator, the rotor casing is rotated by reciprocal action between the stator and the rotor magnet. The integrated washer holder is mounted to the support plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Inventors: Jong Min YOON, Nak Yun Sung, Yong Ho Won
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Publication number: 20110115325Abstract: An electric motor assembly is configured to be mounted within a machine in a selected one of multiple possible motor dispositions corresponding with different motor axis positions. The motor assembly includes an endshield having a pair of opposite generally radially-extending mounting flanges. Each mounting flange presents an engagement portion that includes a plurality of spaced apart, dissimilarly-shaped fastener-receiving recesses that extend in a generally common direction and are configured to alternately receive a fastener therein. The pair of flanges cooperatively present corresponding sets of like-shaped recesses, each of which is associated with one of the motor dispositions, but only one of the sets of recesses extends entirely through the engagement portions to define a single set of like-shaped through holes corresponding to the selected motor disposition.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.Inventors: Barry M. Newberg, Stephen J. Burton
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Patent number: 7942078Abstract: A structural connector for providing a structural interconnection between the housing of a gear unit and the housing of an electric motor, the structural connector being of a modular type including a base member adapted for connection to at least one of the housing of an electric motor and the housing of a gear unit, and at least two side wall members, the side wall members having a motor end adapted for connection to one of an electric motor housing and the base member and a gear end adapted for connection to a gear unit housing, the side wall members lying at least in substantial part in a plane inclined at an angle of at least 60 degrees relative to a plane containing at least a part of the base member, and the side wall members being spaced apart by connection to an interposed housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2005Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Hansen Industrial Transmissions N.V.Inventor: Dirk Olaf Leimann
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Patent number: 7944103Abstract: A fixation portion of an attachment plate is fixed onto an upper surface of a flange portion of a housing. In a cylindrical retentive portion of the housing, there is formed an expanded diameter portion which is continuous to the flange portion. There is disposed a ball bearing in the expanded diameter portion. Formed integrally with the flange portion is a fitting portion such that the fitting portion is continuous to the expanded diameter portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2008Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventors: Masashi Nomura, Masamichi Nagata
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Patent number: 7939981Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical motor (10), comprising a shaft (24), a housing (12) with a housing flange (14) and a bearing plate (16) with a bearing plate flange (18), whereby one end of the shaft (24) projects out of the bearing plate (16). The housing flange (14) and the bearing plate flange (18) are connected by means of at least one hollow rivet (20) such that the electrical motor (10) may be mounted by means of a fixing element, in particular, a screw, through the hollow rivet (10) on a connector flange of a gear stage in a working connection with the projecting end of the shaft (24). In one method for connection or said electrical motor (10) to a connector flange, the electrical motor (10) may be mounted by means of a fixing element, through the hollow rivet (10) on a connector flange of a gear stage in a working connection with the projecting end of the shaft (24).Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2005Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Dieter Fornoff, Ingo Drewe, Juergen Neuenfeld, Frank Miehle
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Publication number: 20110101809Abstract: An actuator that includes a housing and an electric motor arranged in the housing. The housing has an insertion opening with a cylindrical motor receiving compartment through which the electric motor is axially inserted. The electric motor axially rests on a bottom of the motor receiving compartment on a first side and axially projects from the insertion opening on an opposite side. The electric motor rests axially on a cover that is screwed to the housing for closing the insertion opening. The housing is at least partially threaded in an axial insertion section of the insertion opening. The cover has a threaded section complementary to the thread of the housing. The cover has a cup-shaped section with a cylindrical wall and a bottom on which the electric motor rests axially.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventor: Thomas Weber
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Patent number: 7934691Abstract: Pan systems are provided. Pan systems illustratively include a hobby servo motor having a splined output shaft, a rotatable auxiliary shaft that is approximately parallel to the splined output shaft, and a one piece support frame. In an embodiment, the one piece support frame has a top panel, a center panel, a first side, and a second side. The top panel and the center panel are approximately parallel. The first side and the second side are approximately parallel. The top panel and the center panel are approximately perpendicular to the first side and the second side. The top and center panels illustratively each include a hobby servo motor aperture and an auxiliary shaft aperture. The hobby servo motor is positioned within the hobby servo apertures and the rotatable auxiliary shaft is positioned within the auxiliary shaft apertures.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Robotzone LLCInventor: Brian Pettey
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Patent number: 7936098Abstract: A rotary electric machine, for solving problems that a space for installing the noise insulation enclosure around the rotary electric machine and a base for installing the noise insulation enclosure are necessary, and that the noise insulation enclosure reducing the noise on an outer side of the noise insulation enclosure does not reduce the noise on an inner side thereof, and the inspecting worker entering thereinto is exposed to a loud noise of the rotary electric machine, the rotary electric machine comprising a stator frame having a stator iron core incorporating a stator coil therein in an inner portion thereof, and a rotor in which a rotor coil rotating so as to oppose to the stator frame and the stator iron core is incorporated, further comprising a noise insulation plate fixed to a noise insulation plate attaching seat welded to an outer surface of the stator frame by a bolt and a nut, an elastic body which is provided in a contact portion between the noise insulation plate attaching seat and the noisType: GrantFiled: August 13, 2009Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tadaaki Kakimoto, Hiroyuki Mae, Keiji Fugane
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Publication number: 20110097221Abstract: A motor includes a balancing member having a surface. The surface has a shaft coupling portion and a magnetically conductive portion. A stator is coupled to the balancing member. A rotor includes a hub, a shaft, and a permanent magnet. The shaft and the permanent magnet are mounted inside the hub. The shaft is rotatably coupled to the shaft coupling portion. The permanent magnet includes a magnetically attracting face aligned with the magnetically conductive portion of the balancing member. The magnetically attracting face and the magnetically conductive portion attract each other to maintain stable rotation of the rotor while providing a simplified structure. The balancing member can be interconnected to a housing, and the hub can include a plurality of blades to form a heat dissipating fan. When the rotor rotates, air currents are drawn by the blades to a heat source for heat dissipating purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Inventor: Alex Horng
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Publication number: 20110095634Abstract: An electric machine (2) having a stator support (5) for a hybrid drive train of a vehicle, in particular a utility vehicle, with a transmission housing (3), for accommodating the transmission, and a hybrid housing (4), for accommodating the electric machine (2), such that the stator support (5) is formed integrally with an attachment for fastening to the hybrid housing (4) and the transmission housing (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Martin Lamke, Rayk Hoffmann, Thomas Gnandt
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Patent number: 7911095Abstract: A servo motor with large rotor inertia includes a casing, a stator, a rotor and an inertial disk. The casing includes a hollow chamber and axial stages at front side and rear side thereof. The stator is arranged in the chamber and includes a ring and a plurality of coils around the ring. A through hole is defined at the center of the ring. A rotation shaft of the rotor is fixed to the stage and a magnet body is capped to the rotation shaft, where the magnet body is arranged in the through hole. The inertial disk is fixed to the rotation shaft of the rotor. The rotational inertia of the rotor is increased by rotating the inertial disk when the rotor is rotated by magnetize the stator. Therefore, the inertial disks of various sizes can be fixed to the rotor for matching different load inertia.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2006Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Hong-Cheng Shu, Chun-Hung Chen
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Patent number: 7911101Abstract: In an electric motor of an SBW actuator, a rotor shaft is rotated upon energization of the motor. A rotor core is rotated integrally with the rotor shaft. A resilient member enables tilting or decentering of the rotor shaft upon application of a decentering force on the rotor shaft. A stator core contacts the rotor core when the rotor shaft is tilted or decentered.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Kimura, Shigeru Yoshiyama
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Patent number: 7893572Abstract: The invention provides for a motor attachment assembly that includes an electric motor having spring clips adapted to securely lock onto the isolation posts of a plastic post vibration isolation system. The motor includes an end cap that has notches which cooperate with locator tabs of the motor housing to lock the cap onto the housing with the spring clips therebetween. Each clip includes an axial slot that is expandable in an open direction to receive an isolation post and biased in the closed direction to retain the isolation post. Each clip also has an inner surface with barbs protruding into the channel to allow insertion of the isolation post into the channel in the direction of the output shaft and to resist movement of the isolation post in a direction opposite to the output shaft. The inner surface has a retention groove to receive plastically deformed portions of the isolation post.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2008Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Edward Douglas Pettitt, Kari Ann Sausen, John Patrick Morgan
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Publication number: 20110036127Abstract: Disclosed herein are a motor usable with a washing machine to assure interchangeability of constituent elements thereof and a washing machine having the same. The motor includes a stator mounted to a tub of the washing machine, and a rotor to rotate a drum of the washing machine. The stator includes a stator core, first and second insulators arranged to cover the stator core, and a plurality of mounts to couple the stator to the tub. The plurality of mounts is selectively provided at one of the first insulator and the second insulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Woon Yong Lee
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Patent number: 7888832Abstract: A vibration motor having mounting hardware with a width dimension able to be kept within a thickness of a motor case, that is, a vibration motor provided with a vibration motor body attaching an eccentric weight to a motor shaft sticking out from a bearing part of a motor case and attaching a pair of motor terminals to a plastic end cap closing an opening of the motor case and with mounting hardware carrying this vibration motor body and to be set on a board, wherein the mounting hardware has a raised bottom flat-shaped part facing a barrel circumference of the motor case, oriented in an axial direction, and to be bonded to mounting patterns on the board, a collar-shaped support piece extending from this raised bottom flat-shaped part and fit over the bearing part in the axial direction, and a plug-in support piece extending from the raised bottom flat-shaped part to the opening side and plugged into first and second positioning slots provided in the plastic end cap in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2009Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignees: Sanyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nakamura Masato
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Patent number: 7884516Abstract: A motor may include a rotor provided with a rotor shaft, a cylindrical bearing made of resin material and provided with a bearing part for rotatably supporting a shaft end of the rotor shaft, and a bearing holder provided with a through-hole into which the cylindrical bearing is inserted. The cylindrical bearing is slidably held in the through-hole and at least one of a first end face where the bearing part is formed and a second end face which is an opposite end face to the first end face is formed with a ring-shaped groove. Therefore, a wall thickness of resin for forming the bearing can be made thinner and thus shrinkage of the side wall part of the bearing which faces an inner peripheral face of the through-hole of the bearing holder is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Shingo Iwashima, Takeyoshi Miyashita
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Publication number: 20110025155Abstract: Provided is an intermediate member which is arranged between a motor housing (4) and a transmission case (2) and which has multiple motor housing supporting point positions (A) and transmission case supporting point positions (B). The intermediate member is coupled to the motor housing (4) at the motor housing supporting point positions (A). The transmission case supporting point positions (B) are each arranged in an angular region formed between a motor housing supporting line (C) and a motor housing supporting center line (D) which is the center between the motor housing supporting line (C) and another motor housing supporting line (C) adjacent thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2009Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventors: Shinya Kurosawa, Kazuhiko Arai
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Patent number: 7876005Abstract: In a motor, a retaining claw with a slanted surface is arranged around the upper end of a tubular portion of a housing for mounting a rotor. A cylindrical portion is integrally formed in a peripheral area of a rotational axis of a turntable. A retaining member with retaining portions having a J-shaped cross section is attached to the lower surface of the turntable. Arms of the retaining portions are located in the vicinity of the lower end of the cylindrical portion. In mounting the rotor onto the housing, the retaining portions contact the slanted surface and the arms are elastically deformed. Upon completion of the mounting, the arms return to a state before the elastic deformation, so that the retaining claw prevents the rotor from coming off.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Ichizaki
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Patent number: 7876009Abstract: The invention provides a press in style motor attachment mount assembly. The assembly includes a motor and a vibration isolator. The motor has an end portion axially remote from the output end and a stop facing the output end. The vibration isolator includes a cup that axially receives the end portion of the motor. The cup includes an end wall, a sidewall, and flexible fingers integrally connected to the sidewall. The flexible fingers have a flexed position in which the tip of the flexible finger is disposed radially outwardly to allow axial assembly of the end portion of the motor into the cup and a locking position where the tip engages the first radial stop to prevent axial detachment of the motor from the cup.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2008Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Richard S Baranowski, Kari Ann Sausen, Edward Douglas Pettitt, Steve M Zielinski
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Publication number: 20110012457Abstract: A motor positioning structure is constructed by providing a plurality of positioning pins 28, 29 for positioning a circuit board 22 on a case 21 of a circuit main body 3 and also providing receiving holes 35, 36 for receiving the positioning pins 28, 29 in a frame 4 on the side of a stator in a motor main body 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventors: Yoshitaka Ikitake, Toshiyuki Umemoto, Kenta Hatano, Toshihiko Miyake
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Patent number: 7872386Abstract: A motor includes a stator core that forms a magnetic path and has a plurality of tooth parts along a circumferential direction; a tooth provided in each tooth part to wind a coil there around; and an extension part alternated with the tooth part along a circumferential direction of the stator core, convexly extending to an inner radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2007Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Ho Jae Lee
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Patent number: 7868498Abstract: A motor case assembly 20 a permanent magnet D.C. electric motor includes a motor case 24 having a generally cylindrical wall 25, a closed end 21, and an open end 23 opposite the closed end, defining an interior 27. Permanent magnet structure 26 is mounted to the wall 25 in the interior 27. A surface defines at least one hole 22 through the wall 25. The hole 22 is constructed and arranged to be employed in mounting the case 20 to a shroud to obtain a mass balance distribution of a motor shroud assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2006Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KommanditgesellschaftInventors: Daniela Pricope, Attila Simofi-Ilyes, Andrew Lakerdas, Antonio Giammarco, Bonifacio Castillo