Flat disk commutator

• US 5,637,944 A
• Filed: 04/12/1995
• Issued: 06/10/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsuba Electric Manufacturing Company Limited (Mitsuba Corporation)
• Inventors: Shimoyama, Syuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Stephan, Steven L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ENAD, ELVIN GENARGUE
• Application Number:
  US08/421,668
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 310/237, 310/233, 29/597
• US Class Current: 310/237
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 39/06 other than with external cylindrical contact surface, e.g. flat commutators
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/08 in which segments are not separated until after assembly
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49011 Commutator or slip ring assembly

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide a commutator in which the making of the plate solder can be omitted.

A segment 21 is arranged at one end face of the axial direction of the boss 16 with an equal spacing and is fixed in an insulating manner. Each riser bar 4 is electrically connected to each segment. Each connecting plate 6 is continuously provided at each riser bar 4. A recess 5 formed at each connecting plate 6 is engaged at a projection 10 formed at the outer circumference of each ring solder 12. Each connecting plate 6 is arranged on the outer circumferential face of each segment, which is thereby electrically connected by a solder layer 13. A boss 16 surrounds each connecting plate 6 from the outside thereof in a state which makes each riser bar 4 project.

Claims

1. A commutator, comprising:

a unitary disk-shaped boss made from resin, said boss having an axially facing upper end face and a circumferential direction;

a plurality of carbon segments arranged on said end face of said boss and spaced from one another by an equal spacing in said circumferential direction of said boss, which segments are insulated from each other and each of which segments has a radially outwardly facing circumferential surface having upper and lower edges; and

a plurality of riser bars, each of which riser bars is electrically connected to a respective one of said segments;

wherein;

each of said segments has a projection extending radially outwardly from its radially outwardly facing circumferential surface;

each of said riser bars is connected to a connecting plate;

a recess is formed in each of said connecting plates and receivingly engages said projection extending radially outwardly from the radially outwardly facing circumferential surface of an associated one of said segments;

each of said connecting plates is arranged on said outer circumferential surface of a respectively associated one of said segments and extends along a substantial portion of the distance between said upper and lower edges of said associated segment and has an inner circumferential surface electrically connected to said outer circumferential surface of said respectively associated one of said segments; and

said boss has a circumferential portion extending axially upwardly from said upper end face of said boss, from which said riser bars project radially outwardly, which boss portion radially overlies and circumferentially surrounds parts of all of said connecting plates.

2. The commutator according to claim 1, wherein said inner circumferential surface of each of said connecting plates is electrically connected to the outer circumferential surface of the associated one of said segments by soldering.

3. The commutator according to claim 1, wherein said inner circumferential surface of each of said connecting plates is electrically connected to the outer circumferential surface of the associated one of said segments by a conductive adhesive.

4. The commutator according to claim 1, wherein a conductive layer is formed on said outer circumferential surface of each of said segments.

5. The commutator according to claim 4, wherein said inner circumferential surface of each of said connecting plates is electrically connected to said conductive layer of the associated one of said segments by soldering.

6. The commutator according to claim 4, wherein said inner circumferential surface of each of said connecting plates is electrically connected to said conductive layer of the associated one of said segments by a conductive adhesive.