Motor with a stationary shaft with formed knurled grooves on shaft and/or housing

• US 6,630,758 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2001
• Issued: 10/07/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NSK Limited
• Original Assignee: NSK Limited
• Inventors: Ishiwada, Hiroshi, Miyagawa, Takayuki, Aoki, Mamoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Dang
• Assistant Examiner(s): ELKASSABGI, HEBA
• Application Number:
  US09/851,347
• Publication Number:
  US 20020047390A1
• Time in Patent Office: 881 Days
• Field of Search: 310/67.R, 310/90, 384/450, 384/513
• US Class Current: 310/67.00R
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 19/06 with a single row or balls
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 19/54 Systems consisting of a plurality of bearings with rolling friction spindle bearings F16C35/08
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 2226/40 with adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 35/0635 the bore of the inner ring being of special non-cylindrical shape which co-operates with a complementary shape on the shaft, e.g. teeth, polygonal sections
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 35/067 Fixing them in a housing with interposition of an element F16C35/07
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/1737 radially supporting the rotor around a fixed spindle; radially supporting the rotor directly

Abstract

A motor comprises a rotor, a stator, and a shaft wherein one of the stator and the rotor is provided with a housing, a rolling bearing is provided between the housing and the shaft and having an inner race and outer race, the inner race is fixed to the shaft through adhesion between the outer peripheral surface of the shaft and the inner peripheral surface of the inner race, the outer race is fixed to the housing through press-fitting, and the outer peripheral surface of the shaft is formed with knurled grooves, where the number (P) of the knurled grooves in the circumferential direction and the number (Z) of the rolling members in the rolling bearing are in the relations of P≢n Z and P≢nZ±1 where n is a positive integer.

Claims

1. A motor comprising a rotor, a stator, a shaft, and a rolling bearing, one of the stator and the rotor being provided with a housing, the rolling bearing being provided between the housing and the shaft and having an inner race and outer race, the shaft having an outer peripheral surface, the housing having an inner peripheral surface, the inner race having an inner peripheral surface and the outer race having an outer peripheral surface, the inner race being fixed to the shaft through one of press-fitting and use of an adhesive between the outer peripheral surface of the shaft and the inner peripheral surface of the inner race, the outer race being fixed to the housing through one of press-fitting and use of an adhesive between the outer peripheral surface of the outer race and the inner peripheral surface of the housing, and at least one of the outer peripheral surface of the shaft and the inner peripheral surface of the housing being formed with knurled grooves, wherein the number (P) of the knurled grooves in the circumferential direction and the number (Z) of the rolling members in the rolling bearing are in the relations of P≢

nZ and P≢

nZ±

1 where n is a positive integer.

2. A motor comprising a rotor, a stator, a shaft, and a rolling bearing, one of the stator and the rotor being provided with a housing, the rolling bearing being provided between the housing and the shaft and having an inner race and outer race, the shaft having an outer peripheral surface, the housing having an inner peripheral surface, the inner race having an inner peripheral surface and the outer race having an outer peripheral surface, the inner race being fixed to the shaft through one of press-fitting and use of an adhesive between the outer peripheral surface of the shaft and the inner peripheral surface of the inner race, the outer race being fixed to the housing through one of press-fitting and use of an adhesive between the outer peripheral surface of the outer race and the inner peripheral surface of the housing, and at least one of the outer peripheral surface of the shaft and the inner peripheral surface of the housing being formed with knurled grooves, wherein the number (P) of the knurled grooves in the circumferential direction and the number (Z) of the rolling members in the rolling bearing are in the relation of P=nZ±

X where n is a positive integer, and X is 2 or an integer larger than 2.