Oscillating motor and electric clippers

• US 10,511,214 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2018
• Issued: 12/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jiankun Hu
• Original Assignee: Jiankun Hu
• Inventors: Hu, Jiankun, Hu, Jianchang, Hu, Feiran, Hu, Feifan
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, John K
• Application Number:
  US16/049,935
• Publication Number:
  US 20180361601A1
• Time in Patent Office: 504 Days
• Field of Search: 310 36, 310 37, 310 38, 310 39
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 19/12 of the oscillating- cutter type; Cutting heads therefor; Cutters therefor B26B19/04 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 19/28 Drive layout for hair clippers or dry shavers, e.g. providing for electromotive drive electric motors per se H02
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 19/284 with an actuator oscillating about a pivot axis
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 33/16 with polarised armatures moving in alternate directions by reversal or energisation of a single coil system
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 33/18 with coil systems moving upon intermittent or reversed energisation thereof by interaction with a fixed field system, e.g. permanent magnets

Abstract

An oscillating motor and electric clippers. The oscillating motor includes a U-shaped magnetic yoke, four permanent magnets and a swing arm. The U-shaped magnetic yoke causes end faces of two support legs to produce alternating magnetic poles with the control circuit. The four permanent magnets are fixedly mounted to an inner arm via a second magnetic yoke. The four permanent magnets are sequentially distributed on a same circumferential surface having a fulcrum being a centre of rotation. The polarities of radial end faces of the first permanent magnet and the fourth permanent magnet are the same. The polarities of radial end faces of the second permanent magnet and the third permanent magnet are the same, and the opposite of the polarity of the radial end face of the first permanent magnet. When a coil is electrified, the four permanent magnets produce torque having the same direction of rotation.

Claims

1. An oscillating motor, comprising:

a U-shaped magnetic yoke having a first support leg and a second support leg, and the first support leg and the second support leg are wound with coils;

a control circuit electrically connected to the coils and generating alternating pulses to generate alternating magnetic poles at end faces of the first support leg and the second support leg of the U-shaped magnetic yoke;

a swing arm swingable around a fulcrum;

wherein the first support leg and the second support leg respectively extend outward from a base portion of the U-shaped magnetic yoke so as to form a U-shaped structure;

the swing arm is substantially arranged in an extending direction of the first support leg and the second support leg;

the swing arm is bounded by the fulcrum, an end of the swing arm close to the U-shaped magnetic yoke is an inner arm and the other end of the swing arm remote from the U-shaped magnetic yoke is an outer arm;

the inner arm levers the outer arm to swing around the fulcrum in a swinging plane where the swing arm locates under the action of electromagnetic force;

a second magnetic yoke mounted at one end of the inner arm close to the U-shaped magnetic yoke for forming magnetic pathways;

wherein the second magnetic yoke and the swing arm form a T-shaped structure; and

a first permanent magnet, a second permanent magnet, a third permanent magnet, and a fourth permanent magnet being fixedly mounted on the second magnetic yoke;

wherein the first permanent magnet, the second permanent magnet, the third permanent magnet, and the fourth permanent magnet are orderly spaced and distributed on a same circumference centered on the fulcrum;

radial end faces of the first permanent magnet and the fourth permanent magnet have a same polarity;

radial end faces of the second permanent magnet and the third permanent magnet have a same polarity;

the radial end faces of the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet have opposite polarities and are provided corresponding to an end face of the first support leg;

the radial end faces of the third permanent magnet and the fourth permanent magnet have opposite polarities and are provided corresponding to an end face of the second support leg; and

end faces of the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet correspondingly have an air gap with the end face of the first leg;

end faces of the third permanent magnet and the fourth permanent magnet correspondingly have an air gap with the end face of the second leg.

2. The oscillating motor of claim 1, wherein a gap between the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet is smaller than a width of the end face of the first support leg;

and

a gap between the third permanent magnet and the fourth permanent magnet is smaller than a width of the end face of the second support leg.

3. The oscillating motor of claim 1, wherein a circular arc surface is provided at the end faces of the first support leg matching with a circumference formed when the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet swing and a circular arc surface is provided at the end faces of the second support leg matching with a circumference formed when the third permanent magnet and the fourth permanent magnet swing.

4. The oscillating motor of claim 1, wherein an elastic body is provided on both sides of the swing arm for absorbing a moment of inertia of the swing arm in a swing position.

5. The oscillating motor of claim 4, wherein the elastic body is a silicone member or a rubber member having a shape of sphere, elliptical sphere, cylinder, elliptical cylinder or semicircle.

6. The oscillating motor of claim 1, wherein a detecting element for detecting a in-position state of the first permanent magnet or the fourth permanent magnet is respectively provided at an outer side of the U-shaped magnetic yoke and on a moving track of the first permanent magnet and/or the fourth permanent magnet;

and the detecting element is connected to the control circuit.

7. The oscillating motor of claim 6, wherein the detecting element is a HALL element.

8. The oscillating motor of claim 1, wherein the oscillating motor further comprises a resonant elastic member, wherein an end of the resonant elastic member is fixed at the fulcrum of the swing arm and the other end the resonant elastic member is connected to the outer arm or the inner arm.

9. The oscillating motor of claim 1, wherein the force output portion with an arc-shaped outer wall is provided at the outer arm.

10. The oscillating motor of claim 1, wherein a connecting rod for force output is provided at the outer arm and/or the inner arm;

and the connecting rod is perpendicular to a swinging plane of the swing arm.

11. An electric clipper, comprising an oscillating motor and a cutter head;

wherein the oscillating motor comprises;

a U-shaped magnetic yoke having a first support leg and a second support leg, and the first support leg and the second support leg are wound with coils;

a control circuit electrically connected to the coils and generating alternating pulses to generate alternating magnetic poles at end faces of the first support leg and the second support leg of the U-shaped magnetic yoke;

a swing arm swingable around a fulcrum;

wherein the first support leg and the second support leg respectively extend outward from a base portion of the U-shaped magnetic yoke so as to form a U-shaped structure;

the swing arm is substantially arranged in an extending direction of the first support leg and the second support leg;

the swing arm is bounded by the fulcrum, an end of the swing arm close to the U-shaped magnetic yoke is an inner arm and the other end of the swing arm remote from the U-shaped magnetic yoke is an outer arm;

the inner arm levers the outer arm to swing around the fulcrum in a swinging plane where the swing arm locates under the action of electromagnetic force;

a second magnetic yoke mounted at one end of the inner arm close to the U-shaped magnetic yoke for forming magnetic pathways;

wherein the second magnetic yoke and the swing arm form a T-shaped structure; and

a first permanent magnet, a second permanent magnet, a third permanent magnet, and a fourth permanent magnet being fixedly mounted on the second magnetic yoke;

wherein the first permanent magnet, the second permanent magnet, the third permanent magnet, and the fourth permanent magnet are orderly spaced and distributed on a same circumference centered on the fulcrum;

radial end faces of the first permanent magnet and the fourth permanent magnet have a same polarity;

radial end faces of the second permanent magnet and the third permanent magnet have a same polarity;

the radial end faces of the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet have opposite polarities and are provided corresponding to an end face of the first support leg;

the radial end faces of the third permanent magnet and the fourth permanent magnet have opposite polarities and are provided corresponding to an end face of the second support leg;

end faces of the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet correspondingly have an air gap with the end face of the first leg;

end faces of the third permanent magnet and the fourth permanent magnet correspondingly have an air gap with the end face of the second leg;

wherein the cutter head is connected to the outer arm of the swing arm;

the force output portion is provided at the outer arm;

the force output portion has an arc-shaped outer wall;

a toggle connecting body is provided at the cutter head;

a groove matching the force output portion is provided at the toggle connecting body; and

the force output portion is mounted within the groove.