Flat commutator and method for its production

• US 5,157,299 A
• Filed: 09/05/1991
• Issued: 10/20/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kolektor Kautt & Bux GmbH (Kolektor Group DOO)
• Original Assignee: Kautt & BUX KG
• Inventors: Gerlach, Karl-Heinz
• Primary Examiner(s): Skudy, R.
• Application Number:
  US07/755,044
• Time in Patent Office: 411 Days
• Field of Search: 310/233, 310/234, 310/235, 310/237, 310/42, 310/43, 29/597
• US Class Current: 310/237
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 39/045 the commutators being made of carbon
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 39/06 other than with external cylindrical contact surface, e.g. flat commutators
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/06 Manufacture of commutators

Abstract

A flat commutator is described with carbon segments, metal segment-supporting parts supporting these and a hub body of an electrically insulating moldable plastic compound, which supports the segment-supporting parts, a solder layer is provided lying between the two segments for the connection between the carbon segments and the segment-supporting parts. The side surfaces of directly adjacent carbon segment-supporting parts which are facing one another are covered completely by the moldable plastic compound of the hub body. The method for producing this commutator is also described wherein the segment-supporting parts are soldered together with an annular plate later forming the carbon segments before the hub body is fitted onto the segment-supporting parts. The intermediate spaces between the segment-supporting parts are filled with moldable plastic material. Not until after the fitting is the annular plate subdivided into the individual carbon segments.

Claims

1. A flat commutator comprising:

a) plate-like carbon segments forming a brush contact surface, arranged at some distance from one another;

b) metallic, likewise separated segment-supporting parts for the carbon segments, which are each connected mechanically securely and electrically conductively with one of the segment-supporting parts;

c) a hub body of an electrically insulating moldable plastic which supports the segment-supporting parts, which are provided with anchoring elements and also coil attachment elements embedded in the hub body;

d) a solder connecting layer between the carbon segments and the segment-supporting parts; and

e) said segment-supporting parts having facing end surfaces which are covered completely by said moldable plastic of the hub body.

2. Flat commutator as in claim 1, having a central through-passage channel and said end surfaces wherein the end surfaces of the segment-supporting parts include inside end surfaces turned in toward the central through-passage channel of the hub body and include an outside end surface of each segment-supporting part turned away from the central through-passage channel, wherein further at least one of said outside and inside end surfaces is at least partially covered by the moldable plastic of the hub body.

3. Flat commutator as in claim 2, wherein the moldable plastic of the hub body at least partially covers one of an inside end surface of each carbon segment turned toward a central through-passage channel and an outside end surface turned away from the central through-passage channel.

4. Flat commutator as in claim 1, wherein each of said segment-supporting parts have an intermediate space between facing side surfaces, which space is greater than the space between the carbon segments supported by directly adjacent said segment-supporting parts.

5. Flat commutator as in claim 4, wherein each space is an air gap between two adjacent carbon segments and extends a short distance into the moldable plastic of the hub body, which separates the segment-supporting parts.

6. Flat commutator as in claim 1, wherein the segment-supporting parts project radially outward over the outside edges of the carbon segments and here incorporate a segment from which extends an edge forming an installation surface for an outside end surface of each carbon segment and in an opposite direction a hooked catch member base of a hooked attachment catch member serving as attachment element.

7. Flat commutator as in claim 1, wherein the segment-supporting parts project radially inward over the carbon segments and in this projecting area have a material portion projecting outward against a plane defined by the brush contact surface preferably in a form of a tongue, to which is engaged an inside end surface of each carbon segment, preferably under an intermediate layer in a form of a solder layer.

8. Flat commutator as in claim 7, wherein the material portion engages in a groove of the carbon segment.

9. Flat commutator as in one of claims 6 or 7, wherein each of the material portions forming an installation surface for the inside end surface of the carbon segments and the installation surface for the outside end surface of the carbon segment, in axial alignment and aligned in a direction of rotation of the commutator, have teeth and tooth-size gaps, which engage with corresponding said teeth and tooth-size gaps of the carbon segments.

10. Flat commutator as in claim 1, wherein each segment-supporting part and each carbon segment supported by it, on their sides facing each other in a direction of rotation of the commutator have form-locking connection elements meshing together, preferably in a form of a projection and a recess receiving said projection.

11. Flat commutator as in claim 1, wherein the carbon segments with the help of the moldable plastic of the hub body are connected form-locking with the hub body and at least one of the segment-supporting parts.

12. Flat commutator as in claim 11, wherein the outside and inside end surfaces of each carbon segment are provided with corrugations running peripherally and axially.

13. Flat commutator as in claim 1, wherein each carbon segment, on a side forming the brush contact surface in the area of one of its inside and outside edges has a channeled area, into which projects a portion of a material of the hub body catching in each carbon segment.

14. Flat commutator as in claim 6, wherein the hooked catch member base of each hooked attachment catch member is configured at least over a portion of its axial length in peripheral alignment with the commutator to be wider than a free hooked catch member end attaching thereto.

15. Flat commutator as in claim 6, wherein each hooked catch member base is embedded in the hub body and together with this body forms a cylindrical outside sheathing surface.

16. Flat commutator as in claim 1, further including anchoring elements formed by portions which are cut free and flexed outward from a material of the segment-supporting parts, said anchoring elements are enlarged peripherally out toward their free ends.

17. Flat commutator as in claim 1, wherein the solder connecting layer is selected from the group consisting of a low melting point silver solder, and a soft solder.

18. Flat commutator as in in claim 1, wherein each carbon segment is connected in a form-locking connection with at least one of components taken from the group consisting of the segment-supporting parts and the hub body.

19. Flat commutator as in claim 1, wherein a gap is provided between each part of said carbon segments arranged directly adjacent each other.