Electric motor with frictional planetary speed reducer

• US 4,918,344 A
• Filed: 08/02/1988
• Issued: 04/17/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: KOYO Seiko Company Limited 2 Unagidani Nishino-Cho Minamiku Osaka Japan
• Original Assignee: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd. (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ueda, Kouichi, Chikamori, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Salce, Patrick R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): REBSCH, DONALD
• Application Number:
  US07/227,387
• Time in Patent Office: 623 Days
• Field of Search: 74/798, 310/83, 310/67 R, 310/80, 310/261, 310/265, 310/266
• US Class Current: 310/83
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 13/06 with members having orbital motion
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/116 with gears

Abstract

An electric motor having a frictional planetary speed reducer comprises a hollow cylindrical rotor disposed inside a stator. The speed reducer is at least partly accommodated in the rotor.

Claims

1. An electric motor with a frictional planetary speed reducer having a stator portion provided with a stator, an output shaft supported by said stator portion with a bearing therebetween, a rotor opposed to the stator and located between said output shaft and the stator, and the frictional planetary speed reducer located between said rotor and said output shaft, said frictional planetary speed reducer comprising:

a hollow cylindrical stationary wheel, one end of which is fixed to said stator portion and a free end of which is arranged in the vicinity of an inner periphery of said rotor;

a hollow cylindrical input shaft directly connected with an endplate extending radially inward from the end portion of said rotor at the free end side of the stationary wheel, said input shaft being arranged so as to form a determined space interposed between an inner periphery of said stationary wheel and an outer periphery of said input shaft as opposed to each other;

a plurality of planetary rollers being arranged circumferentially at regular intervals so as to be fitted in pressing contact into said space interposed between said stationary wheel and said input shaft;

a plurality of carrier pins each of which is arranged inside a planetary roller with a needle roller therebetween; and

a carrier portion fixed to said output shaft and mounting each of said plurality of carrier pins.

2. An electric motor as defined in claim 1, wherein said planetary rollers are hollow cylindrical rollers and the raceway surfaces of said input shaft and said stationary wheel which interpose said planetary rollers in pressing contact therebetween are cylindrical surfaces so that the axial sectional shapes of the raceway surfaces are parallel to an axial line.

3. An electric motor as defined by claim 1, wherein said planetary rollers are hollow spherical rollers and the raceway surfaces of said input shaft and said stationary wheel which interpose said planetary rollers in pressing contact therebetween are spherical surfaces so that the axial sectional shapes of the raceway surfaces are arc shaped.

4. An electric motor with a frictional planetary speed reducer having a stator portion provided with a stator, an output shaft supported by said stator portion with a bearing therebetween, a rotor opposed to the stator and located between said output shaft and the stator, and the frictional planetary speed reducer located between said rotor and said output shaft, said frictional planetary speed reducer comprising:

a hollow cylindrical stationary wheel, one end of which is fixed to said stator portion and a free end of which is arranged in the vicinity of an inner periphery of said rotor;

a hollow cylindrical input shaft directly connected with an endplate extending radially inward from the end portion of said rotor at the free end side of the stationary wheel, said input shaft being arranged so as to form a determined first space interposed between an inner periphery of said stationary wheel and an outer periphery of said input shaft as opposed to each other;

a plurality of first planetary rollers being arranged circumferentially at regular intervals so as to be fitted in pressing contact into said first space interposed between said stationary wheel and said input shaft;

a plurality of first carrier pins each of which is arranged inside each first planetary roller with a needle roller therebetween;

a hollow intermediate shaft having a carrier portion wherein each first carrier pin is mounted, said intermediate shaft extending axially from an inner periphery portion of said carrier portion so as to form a determined second space between said stationary wheel and said intermediate shaft;

a plurality of second planetary rollers being arranged circumferentially at regular intervals so as to be fitted in pressing contact into said second space interposed between said stationary wheel and said intermediate shaft;

a plurality of second carrier pins each of which is arranged inside a second planetary roller with a needle roller therebetween; and

a carrier portion fixed to said output shaft and mounting each of said plurality of second carrier pins.

5. An electric motor as defined by claim 4, wherein said planetary rollers are hollow cylindrical rollers and the raceway surfaces of said input shaft and said stationary wheel which interpose said planetary rollers in pressing contact therebetween are cylindrical surfaces so that the axial sectional shapes of the raceway surfaces are parallel to an axial line.

6. An electric motor as defined by claim 4, wherein said planetary rollers are hollow spherical rollers and the raceway surfaces of said input shaft and said stationary wheel which interpose said planetary rollers in pressing contact therebetween are spherical surfaces so that the axial sectional shapes of the raceway surfaces are arc shaped.