Driving Motor

• US 20120074802A1
• Filed: 04/14/2010
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd. (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd. (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Oi, Shinichi, Hayashi, Naoto, Jitsukawa, Hiroki, Horiuchi, Kazuyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,103,349 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/64
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/0613 the electric motor being of the inside-out type, i.e. the rotor is arranged radially outside a central stator
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/068 Mechanical details of the pump control unit pump control details F04D27/00
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/08 the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/668 damping or preventing mechanical vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 11/33 Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics H02K11/38 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/04 Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/10 with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. water or fingers
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/18 with ribs or fins for improving heat transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/207 with openings in the casing specially adapted for ambient air
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/22 Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups H02K5/06-H02K5/20, e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/24 specially adapted for suppression or reduction of noise or vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/14 Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans with fan or impeller for cooling the machine H02K9/06

Abstract

Provided is a driving motor that will meet the requests of making the length of a rotating axis of the driving motor to be shorter in the axial direction, and which will also have waterproof, vibration resistance, and soundproof characteristics. In this driving motor (3); a motor interior-space (35) is formed by a housing (21) that has a first and second opening and which is formed to be cylinder shaped, and a flange (22) that blocks the second opening of this housing (21); and a stator assembly (18), a rotor assembly (20), a lower-side end section of the rotating axis (12) that has been placed lower than the flange (22) up until now, and a control circuit-board (19) are all made to be contained in this motor interior-space (35). Furthermore, a ring-shaped elastic member (45) is made to interpose between the upper-side end section of the rotating axis (12) and the first opening of the housing (21); and the lower-side end section of the rotating axis (12), the stator assembly (18), and the rotor assembly (20) are made to be fixed to the flange (22) through a mounting elastic member (59).

Claims

1. A driving motor for transmitting a rotation force to a rotor member so as to rotate the rotor member, wherein a motor main body includes:

a rotating shaft for rotating the rotor member which is attached to one end in an axial direction;

a rotor assembly being attached to the rotating shaft and rotating together with the rotating shaft;

a stator assembly facing the rotor assembly in a radial direction of the rotating shaft and being arranged not rotating together with the rotating shaft;

a control circuit-board that controls rotation of the rotating shaft as well as the rotor assembly; and

a housing having a first opening which is formed in the relatively vicinity of the rotor member and a second opening relatively spaced apart from the rotor member, whereas the housing extends from around of the rotating shaft to outward in a radial direction of the rotating shaft at the vicinity of one end, where it opens at the other end of the axial direction of the rotating shaft, and the housing at the other end of the axial direction of the rotating shaft is covered by a flange, thus the housing and the flange define a motor interior-space, and the housing, being made of a metal, is attached to a case in which an air duct is defined inside so that an external surface of the housing is exposed to the air duct, and at least the stator assembly is contained in the motor interior-space of the housing.

2. The driving motor as defined in claim 1, wherein one end in the axial direction of the rotating shaft is protruding outwardly toward the rotor member side from the housing, and the other end in the axial direction of the rotating shaft is contained in the motor interior-space.

3. The driving motor as defined in claim 2, wherein the rotor assembly is also contained in the motor interior-space of the housing, the control circuit-board is arranged to be contained in the motor interior-space of the housing, being located in the vicinity of one end of the rotating shaft than the rotor assembly and the stator assembly in the axial direction of the rotating shaft, and a yoke is disposed to be contained in the motor interior-space of the housing, being located in the vicinity of the other end in the axial direction of the rotating shaft.

4. The driving motor as defined in claim 2, wherein the rotor assembly is also contained in the motor interior-space of the housing, the control circuit-board is arranged to be contained in the motor interior-space of the housing, being located in the vicinity of the other end of the rotating shaft than the rotor assembly and the stator assembly in the axial direction of the rotating shaft, and a yoke is disposed to be contained in the motor interior-space of the housing, being located in the vicinity of one end in the axial direction of the rotating shaft.

5. The driving motor as defined in claim 1, wherein an elastic ring member is provided in a cylindrical gap between the first opening of the housing and the rotating shaft.

6. The driving motor as defined in claim 1, including a cone part that has a boss part to which the rotating shaft is fixed, the cone part which has a boss part and a first cylindrical part, which is positioned in outer circumference of the rotating shaft than the boss part and extending in an axial direction to the opposite end of the rotating shaft, while the housing has a second cylindrical part which extends in the axial direction of the rotating shaft to the boss part of the cone part and its outer radius being smaller than an inner radial size of the first cylindrical part, and it also has a first opening in which the rotating shaft is to be inserted, circumferential part of the first opening being extending toward the rotating shaft so as to form a flange with which, at a time of assembling the driving motor and the rotor member, the second cylindrical part, being housed in the first cylindrical part generates a space in a relatively complex manner.

7. The driving motor as defined in claim 1, including the rotating shaft, the rotor assembly, and the stator assembly which are integrally formed as a vibrator, and the vibrator is fixed to the flange through an elastic mounting member.

8. The driving motor as defined in claim 1, wherein an elastic member is interposed between the housing and the flange at a time of covering the second opening side of the housing, the intervening elastic member including three or more receiving parts each having a surface to interface the housing end surface which is opposing to the flange, wherein the receiving parts are arranged to surround the rotating shaft to support the motor main body.

9. The driving motor as defined in claim 1, wherein an elastic member is interposed between the housing and the flange at a time of covering the second opening side of the housing, the intervening elastic member to include a plurality of liner grooves in an area opposing to the second opening of the housing.

10. The driving motor as defined in claims 8, wherein the intervening elastic member is configured such that a spring constant in a rotating direction of the rotating shaft is smaller than a spring constant in an axial direction of the rotating shaft.

11. The driving motor as defined in claim 1, wherein at a time of covering the second opening side of the housing, the flange includes a peripheral edge elastic member on its surface which is facing the second opening of the housing, wherein the peripheral edge elastic member is compressed by a pressing force generated by the housing roughly in a radial direction of the rotating shaft, while at the same time the peripheral edge elastic member contacts a region near the second opening on an outer peripheral surface of the housing so that a compressing force does not work in the axial direction of the rotating shaft.

12. The driving motor as defined in claim 1, wherein a heat dissipation accelerator for enhancing dissipation of heat generated in the motor interior-space to outside the motor interior-space is arranged on a surface facing the rotor member.

13. The driving motor as defined in claim 1, wherein a surface facing the second opening of the housing of the flange has a rib which comprises a plurality of liner protrusions extending toward the housing.