BRUSH DC MOTOR WITH REDUCTION MECHANISM

• US 20120032541A1
• Filed: 08/05/2010
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hiwin Mikrosystem Corp. (HIWIN Technologies Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hiwin Mikrosystem Corp. (HIWIN Technologies Corp.)
• Inventors: CHIANG, Hsin-An, CHEN, Guan-Chen
• Granted Patent: US 8,324,775 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/83
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/116 with gears

Abstract

A brush DC motor with reduction mechanism includes: a brush DC motor including a motor case, a stator section and a rotor section having a substantially cylindrical core, the stator section and the rotor section being received in the motor case; and a first reducing section drivable by the motor. The first reducing section includes a first sun gear, an external ring gear positioned around the sun gear and several planetary gears held between the external ring gear and the sun gear and engaged with the sun gear and the external ring gear. The first reducing section further includes a planetary carrier for locating the planetary gears in their true positions. Multiple parallel linear splines are formed on a circumference of the core at intervals. One end of the core with the splines formed on the circumference of the end serves as the sun gear of the first reducing section.

Claims

1. A brush DC motor with reduction mechanism, comprising:

a brush DC motor including a hollow motor case, a stator section and a rotor section, the stator section and the rotor section being received in the motor case; and

a first reducing section drivable by the motor, the first reducing section including a first sun gear, an external ring gear positioned around the sun gear and several planetary gears held between the external ring gear and the sun gear and engaged with the sun gear and the external ring gear, the first reducing section further including a planetary carrier for rotatably locating the planetary gears in their true positions, the brush DC motor being characterized in that the rotor section has a substantially cylindrical core, multiple linear splines being formed on a circumference of the core at intervals in parallel to each other, the splines extending along an axis of the core by a predetermined length, one end of the core with the splines formed on the circumference of the end serving as the sun gear of the first reducing section.

2. The brush DC motor with reduction mechanism as claimed in claim 1, wherein the core has a sleeve section and multiple pole shoes in the form of arcuate pieces, the pole shoes being arranged around a circumference of the sleeve section at intervals, a curvature center of the pole shoes coinciding with an axis of the sleeve section, multiple spoke sections being interconnected between the sleeve section and concave faces of the pole shoes, several slots being defined between the adjacent spoke sections.

3. The brush DC motor with reduction mechanism as claimed in claim 2, wherein the splines of the rotor section are formed on convex faces of the pole shoes and extend from one end of the core to the other end of the core along the axis thereof, each two adjacent splines defining therebetween a splineway, the splineways serving to change magnetic flux of air gap so as to reduce cogging torque of the motor.

4. The brush DC motor with reduction mechanism as claimed in claim 2, wherein the number of the splines is an integer multiple of the number of the slots.

5. The brush DC motor with reduction mechanism as claimed in claim 2, wherein a gap between two adjacent pole shoes is smaller than a width of the splineway between two adjacent splines.

6. The brush DC motor with reduction mechanism as claimed in claim 1, wherein the motor case is a tubular body and the external ring gear is coaxially serially connected with one end of the motor case.

7. The brush DC motor with reduction mechanism as claimed in claim 6, wherein one end of the core extends out from one end of the motor case.

8. The brush DC motor with reduction mechanism as claimed in claim 1, wherein the number of the planetary gears of the first reducing section is four, the four planetary gears being engaged with the sun gear and the external ring gear at 90-degree intervals.