Dynamo-electric machine having a hook shaped commutator and equalizer attached thereto

• US 6,057,623 A
• Filed: 03/16/1999
• Issued: 05/02/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Daikoku, Akihiro, Tanaka, Toshinori, Yamamoto, Kyouhei, Ikeda, Ryuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Enad, Elvin
• Application Number:
  US09/270,114
• Time in Patent Office: 413 Days
• Field of Search: 310/204, 310/205, 310/206, 310/233, 310/234
• US Class Current: 310/206
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 39/32 Connections of conductor to commutator segment
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 13/04 Connections between commutator segments and windings

Abstract

A dynamo-electric machine comprises an armature having a winding composed of a wire or wires wound by a lap winding method through slots extending in the axial direction formed on the outer circumferential surface of a core secured to a shaft, a commutator having commutator segments secured to the shaft, and an equalize disposed adjacent to the commutator in the direction of the axis of the commutator having terminals stacked in the axial direction which electrically connect commutator segments which should have the same electric potential.

Claims

1. A dynamo-electric machine comprising:

a commutator having commutator segments secured to a shaft;

an armature having a winding composed of a wire or wires wound by a lap winding method through slots extending in the axial direction formed on the outer circumferential surface of a core secured to said shaft, with said wire or wires being directly electrically attached to a portion of said commutator segments;

and an equalizer disposed adjacent to said commutator in the direction of the axis of said commutator having terminals stacked in the axial direction which are directly electrically attached to a portion of said commutator segments separate from said wires, and which electrically connect commutator segments which having substantially the same electric potential.

2. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 1, wherein said equalizer comprises:

a base;

terminals stacked on said base; and

insulating plates interposed between each of said terminals to prevent short-circuiting between said terminals.

3. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 2, wherein each of said terminals comprise:

an arc-shaped terminal main body; and

equalizer lead portions extending radially outwards from said terminal main body.

4. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 2, wherein said base and the inner circumferential portions of said commutator are integrated by means of resin.

5. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 2, wherein said insulating plates are flexible.

6. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 5, wherein the outer diameter of said insulating plates is larger than the outer diameter of annular terminal main bodies of said terminals, and the size of said insulating plates is such that said insulating plates cover the outer circumferential edge surfaces of adjacent terminal main bodies.

7. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 2, wherein each of said terminals comprise:

an annular terminal main body; and

equalizer lead portions extending radially outwards from said terminal main body.

8. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 1, wherein said equalizer comprises:

terminals; and

an insulating resin portion to integrate said terminals and to prevent short-circuiting between each of said terminals.

9. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 8, wherein said insulating resin portion and the inner circumferential portions of said commutator are integrated by means of resin.

10. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 1, wherein an insulating resin coat is formed on the surfaces of said equalizer.

11. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 1, wherein a metal coat is formed on end portions of said terminals which are directly electrically connected to said commutator segments to secure said end portions to said commutator segments.

12. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 11, wherein said metal coat is tin plate.

13. The dynamo-electric machine according to claim 1, wherein each commutator segment has a hook shaped protrusion, and said wire is electrically connected to one surface of the hook-shaped protrusions on said commutator segments and the end portions of said terminals are electrically connected to another surface of said hook-shaped protrusions.

14. A dynamo-electric machine comprising:

a commutator having commutator segments secured to a shaft;

an armature having a winding composed of a wire or wires wound by a lap winding method through slots extending in the axial direction formed on the outer circumferential surface of a core secured to said shaft, with said wire or wires being directly electrically attached to a portion of said commutator segments;

and an equalizer disposed adjacent to said commutator in the direction of the axis of said commutator having circumferentially-spaced terminals extending in the radial direction each electrically connecting commutator segments which have substantially the same electric potential, and each attached to a portion of said commutator segments separate from said wires.

15. A method of manufacture for a dynamo-electric machine comprising:

an armature having a winding composed of a wire or wires wound by a lap winding method through slots extending in the axial direction formed on the outer circumferential surface of a core secured to a shaft;

a commutator having commutator segments secured to said shaft;

and an equalizer disposed adjacent to said commutator in the direction of the axis of said commutator having terminals which electrically connect commutator segments which have substantially the same electric potential;

said method of manufacture comprising the steps of;

contacting said wire to a surface of hooks on said commutator segments;

contacting end portions of said terminals to another surface of said hooks; and

electrically connecting said wire and end portions of said terminals to said hooks simultaneously by fusing.