Rotor for small motors and manufacturing method therefor

• US 6,707,218 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2002
• Issued: 03/16/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mabuchi Motor Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Mabuchi Motor Company Limited
• Inventors: Ashikawa, Satoshi, Furuya, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, DANG D
• Application Number:
  US10/075,935
• Publication Number:
  US 20020121835A1
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 310/71, 310/234, 310/219, 310/220, 310/221, 310/233
• US Class Current: 310/233
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 39/32 Connections of conductor to commutator segment
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 13/04 Connections between commutator segments and windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 13/105 Spark suppressors associated with the commutator
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49011 Commutator or slip ring assembly

Abstract

The leading end of a wire to be wound fed from a coil winder is wound around one of commutator leg parts a prescribed number of turns and then wound around a corresponding salient pole. After that, it is similarly wound successively around other commutator leg parts and around other salient poles and, after it is wound around the same commutator leg part as the one around which the leading end of the wire was first wound, the wound wire is cut. Only the portions that will be wound around the commutator leg parts in synchronization with the feed of the wire to be wound from the coil winder are stripped of their insulating coat prior to being wound, and the wound portions of the commutator leg parts are welded.

Claims

1. A rotor for small motors proveded on its shaft with a plurality of rotor magnetic poles of a salient-pole configuration and a commutator unit, each of the rotor magnitic ploes being composed of a winding around a laminated core and each of both ends of each wound wire being connected to a commutator leg part, wherein:

said commutator leg parts are formed of a metal whose melting point is lower than that of copper, said commutator leg parts which are formed separately from corresponding commutator segments of the commutator unit being fixed to the ends of them; and

a connective portion between the both ends of each of said wound wires and the corresponding commutator leg part is formed by winding and welding a wire stripped of its insulating coat.

2. The rotor for small motors, as set forth in claim 1, wherein each of said commutator leg parts comprises a base portion extending from a tip of a commutator segment outward in a direction substantially normal to a radial direction and coupled with the commutator segment and a tip portion narrowed stepwise to let a wound wire end be wound around it.

3. The rotor for small motors, as set forth in claim 2, wherein a disk-shaped varistor having a hole at its center is mounted over the base portions of said commutator leg parts on the reverse side to the winding in an axial direction of a shaft, and each electrode of the varistor is soldered onto the corresponding base portion.

4. The rotor for small motors, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said commutator leg parts are U-shaped.

5. The rotor for small motors, as set forth in claim 4, wherein a material of said commutator leg parts is phosphor bronze.

6. A rotor in accordance with claim 5, wherein:

said wire is formed of copper.

7. A rotor in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

said commutator segment is formed from a first material;

said commutator leg part is formed of a second material, said second material of said commutator leg being different than said first material of said commutator segment.

8. A rotor in accordance with claim 7, wherein:

said wire is formed of copper.

9. A rotor in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

said wire is formed of copper.

10. A rotor for a motor, the rotor comprising:

a shaft with a magnetic pole;

a coil of wire around said magnetic pole, said coil of wire having a wire end;

a commutator segment arranged on said shaft, and formed from a first material;

a commutator leg fixed to said commutator segment and formed of a second material, said wire end of said coil being welded to said commutator leg, said second material of said commutator leg being different than said first material of said commutator segment, said second material having a melting point lower than a melting point of copper.

11. A rotor in accordance with claim 10, wherein:

said wire is formed of copper.

12. A rotor in accordance with claim 11, wherein:

said second material of said commutator leg is phosphor bronze.

13. A rotor in accordance with claim 10, wherein:

said second material of said commutator leg is phosphor bronze.