Electric motor

• US 10,404,112 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2018
• Issued: 09/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
• Inventors: Kawashima, Yoshichika, Tokizaki, Teppei, Tamura, Natsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Horn, Robert W
• Application Number:
  US16/058,355
• Publication Number:
  US 20180351423A1
• Time in Patent Office: 391 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/223 Rotor cores with windings and permanent magnets for additional excitation in synchronous motors or generators H02K21/042; in synchronous motors having additional short-circuited winding for starting as an asynchronous motor H02K21/46
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/265 Shape, form or location of the slots
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 13/04 Connections between commutator segments and windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 23/18 having displaceable main or auxiliary brushes
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 23/32 having wave or undulating windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 23/40 characterised by the arrangement of the magnet circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/1166 comprising worm and worm-wheel structural association with bearings specially adapted for worm gear drives H02K7/081

Abstract

An electric motor includes a yoke having six magnetic poles; a rotary shaft which is provided inside the yoke in a freely rotatable manner; an armature core (6) which has teeth (36) attached to the rotary shaft, radially extending in a radial direction and set in an arrangement of an even number, and an even number of slots (37) formed between the teeth; an armature coil (7) which is wound around the teeth in a single wave winding; and a commutator (13) which is provided in the rotary shaft to be adjacent to the armature core (6) and has a plurality of circumferentially disposed segments (41) to which the armature coil (7) is connected.

Claims

1. An electric motor comprising:

a yoke having six magnetic poles;

a rotary shaft which is provided inside the yoke in a freely rotatable manner;

an armature core which has teeth attached to the rotary shaft, radially extending in a radial direction and set in an arrangement of an even number, and an even number of slots formed between the teeth;

a coil which is wound around the teeth in a single wave winding; and

a commutator which is provided in the rotary shaft to be adjacent to the armature core and has a plurality of circumferentially disposed segments to which the coil is connected,

wherein the coil wired between the armature core and the commutator is wound around the rotary shaft at 360 degrees or more.

2. The electric motor according to claim 1, further comprising:

a pair of brushes which come into slide contact with the segments to supply electric power to the coil,

wherein the pair of brushes are disposed opposite around the rotary shaft.

3. The electric motor according to claim 1, further comprising:

three brushes including a low-speed brush, a high-speed brush and a common brush, the low-speed brush and the high-speed brush coming into slide contact with the segments to supply the electric power to the coil, and the common brush being commonly used with the low-speed brush and the high-speed brush.

4. The electric motor according to claim 1, wherein the commutator has a cylindrical commutator main body, and a plurality of segments is disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the commutator main body.

5. The electric motor according to claim 1, wherein the commutator has a disc-shaped commutator main body, and a plurality of segments is disposed on one surface of the commutator main body on a side opposite to the armature core.

6. The electric motor according claim 1, wherein twenty of teeth and slots are disposed, respectively,

the twenty of slots include a tip wide slot having a shape in which a radial outer side is wide, a bottom wide slot having a shape in which a bottom portion is wide, and an intermediate width slot having a shape in which the radial outer side is narrower than the one of the tip wide slot and the bottom portion is narrower than the one of the bottom wide slot, and

the twenty of slots are disposed, along a circumferential direction of the armature core, in an order of the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the tip wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the bottom wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the tip wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the bottom wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, and the intermediate width slot.

7. The electric motor according to claim 1, wherein sixteen of teeth and slots are disposed, respectively,

the sixteen of slots include a tip wide slot having a shape in which a radial outer side is wide, a bottom wide slot having a shape in which a bottom portion is wide, and an intermediate width slot having a shape in which the radial outer side is narrower than the one of the tip wide slot and the bottom portion is narrower than the one of the bottom wide slot, and

the sixteen of slots are disposed, along a circumferential direction of the armature core, in an order of the bottom wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, and the intermediate width slot, and the tip wide slot.

8. The electric motor according to claim 1,

wherein fourteen of teeth and slots are disposed, respectively,

the fourteen of slots include a tip wide slot having a shape in which a radial outer side is wide, a bottom wide slot having a shape in which a bottom portion is wide, and an intermediate width slot having a shape in which the radial outer side is narrower than the one of the tip wide slot and the bottom portion is narrower than the one of the bottom wide slot, and

the fourteen of slots are disposed, along a circumferential direction of the armature core, in an order of the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, the tip wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the bottom wide slot, the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, the tip wide slot, the bottom wide slot, the tip wide slot, the intermediate width slot, the bottom wide slot, the tip wide slot and the bottom wide slot.