PRINTED CIRCUIT INTENDED TO ENSURE CONNECTION OF AN ELECTRIC MOTOR AND ELECTRIC MOTOR COMPRISING THE PRINTED CIRCUIT

• US 20140319941A1
• Filed: 05/02/2012
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SoftBank Robotics Europe SAS
• Original Assignee: Aldebaran Robotics S.A. (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Clerc, Vincent
• Application Number:
  US14/115,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20140319941A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/71
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 11/026 Suppressors associated with brushes, brush holders or their supports
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 11/028 Suppressors associated with the rotor
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2203/03 Machines characterised by the wiring boards, i.e. printed circuit boards or similar structures for connecting the winding terminations
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0231 Capacitors or dielectric substances
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/028 Bending or folding regions of flexible printed circuits H05K1/0283 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/118 specially for flexible printed circuits, e.g. using folded portions
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/053 Tails
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/0715 provided by an outer layer of PCB
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10015 Non-printed capacitor

Abstract

An electric motor and a printed circuit to ensure the electrical connection of the motor are provided. The printed circuit comprises: a central part to cover a first face of the electric motor; flexible tongues extending from the central part and to partly cover a second face of the motor and to be electrically connected with this second face; a first pair of studs to receive connections from the motor; a second pair of studs to receive power supply wires from the motor; tracks each connecting a stud of the first pair with a stud of the second pair; a filtering capacitor connected between the tracks; a ground plane covering most of the central part and the flexible tongues, the ground plane being electrically connected to a metal part forming the second face of the motor.

Claims

1. A printed circuit intended to be fixed to an electric motor to ensure its electrical connection, comprising:

a central part intended to cover a first face of the electric motor (40),

flexible tongues extending from the central part and intended to partly cover a second face of the motor and to be electrically connected with this second face,

a first pair of studs intended to receive connections from the motor,

a second pair of studs intended to receive power supply wires from the motor,

tracks each connecting a stud of the first pair with a stud of the second pair,

a filtering capacitor connected between the tracks, and

a ground plane covering most of the central part and the flexible tongues, the ground plane being intended to be electrically connected to a metal part forming the second face of the motor.

2. The printed circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the capacitor is of X2Y type and is connected to the tracks and to the ground plane.

3. The printed circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the filtering capacitor is formed by two discrete capacitors connected in series between the tracks and the ground plane is connected to common terminals of the two capacitors.

4. The printed circuit as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a third discrete capacitor connected between the tracks.

5. The printed circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the discrete capacitors are arranged as close as possible to one another so as to generate a mutual inductance that is as great as possible between them.

6. The printed circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the central part is circular and in that the tongues extend around the central part (11) according to radii from the central part when the printed circuit is flat.

7. The printed circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein it is single-sided.

8. The printed circuit as claimed in claim 1, further comprising two conductive layers separated by an insulating layer, in that wherein a first of the two conductive layers forms the ground plane (19), the tracks and the two pairs of studs are etched in the second of the two conductive layers and the ground plane is intended to face the first face of the electric motor.

9. The printed circuit as claimed in claim 8, wherein the second conductive layer is arranged between the first conductive layer and a third conductive layer forming a second ground plane, a second insulating layer being arranged between the second and the third conductive layers.

10. An electric motor, further comprising a printed circuit as claimed in claim 1.

11. The electric motor as claimed in claim 10, wherein the electrical connection of the ground plane on the tongues and the second face of the motor is made by direct contact and the tongues are kept pressed against the second face by means of an adhesive tape surrounding the tongues.

12. The electric motor as claimed in claim 11, wherein the electrical connection of the ground plane on the tongues and on the second face of the motor is ensured by interposing a double-sided conductive adhesive adhering on the one hand to the second face and on the other hand to the tongues.

13. The printed circuit as claimed in claim 4, wherein the discrete capacitors are arranged as close as possible to one another so as to generate a mutual inductance that is as great as possible between them.