DC brushless motor for electrical power steering and the production method thereof

• US 7,453,179 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2007
• Issued: 11/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Ishigami, Takashi, Innami, Toshiyuki, Koizumi, Osamu, Kitamura, Masashi, Yagai, Masamichi, Mirumachi, Mitsuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lam; Thanh
• Application Number:
  US11/756,210
• Publication Number:
  US 20070222330A1
• Time in Patent Office: 537 Days
• Field of Search: 310 89- 90, 310/68.B, 310/156.01, 310/156.06, 310/254, 310214-218, 310/259, 310/261
• US Class Current: 310/89
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 5/0403 characterised by constructional features, e.g. common housing for motor and gear box
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/148 Sectional cores H02K1/141 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/185 to outer stators
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 11/00 Structural association of dynamo-electric machines with electric components or with devices for shielding, monitoring or protection casings, enclosures or supports H02K5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 11/33 Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics H02K11/38 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 29/06 with position sensing devices H02K29/03 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/28 Layout of windings or of connections between windings windings for pole-changing H02K17/06, H02K17/14, H02K19/12, H02K19/32
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/1732 radially supporting the rotary shaft at both ends of the rotor H02K5/1737 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/225 Terminal boxes or connection arrangements specially adapted for submersible motors H02K5/132
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49009 Dynamoelectric machine

Abstract

The stator core of a motor comprises an annular back core, and a plurality of tees created separately from the back core and secured onto the inner periphery of the back core. A stator coil is wound on each of the tees by a distributed or concentrated winding method. The stator core and stator coil are formed by molding.

Claims

1. A DC brushless motor for electrical power steering for outputting the steering torque, controlled by a power conversion apparatus for converting the power obtained from an on-board power source, into polyphase a.c. power and for outputting the power, said DC brushless motor for electrical power steering comprising:

a frame;

a stator secured on said frame;

a rotor arranged opposite to said stator through an air gap;

a flange for blocking both ends of the frame in the axial direction; and

a sensor for checking the magnetic pole position of the rotor

said stator comprising;

a stator core; and

a polyphase stator coil built in said stator core;

said stator core, formed by connecting a plurality of split core pieces, comprising;

an annular back core; and

a plurality of tee cores projected radially from said back core;

wherein a slot is formed on said tee core adjacent to said stator core, and said stator coil is composed of a plurality of unit coils, and is incorporated in said slot;

said rotor comprising;

a shaft;

a rotor core provided on the shaft; and

a plurality of magnets fixed onto the surface of the outer periphery of the rotor core;

said DC brushless motor for electrical power steering further characterized in that said stator core and stator coil are molded by a molding agent, with the stator coil incorporated in the stator core, said shaft being rotatably supported by a bearing, said bearing being arranged on the flange, one side of said flange being provided with a recess, said recess, as a cylindrical member concentric with the shaft, being located inward of the axial end of the frame and extending to the position opposed to the coil end, and one side of said bearing being arranged on the position of the recess radially opposite to the coil end.

2. The DC brushless motor for electrical power steering described in claim 1, wherein the sensor is arranged on the axial end of the frame, and the flange with the recess arranged thereon blocks one of the axial ends of the frame, equipped with the sensor.

3. The DC brushless motor for electrical power steering described in claim 2, wherein one end of said shaft in the axial direction expends further in the axial direction than one side of the bearing and reaches said recess, and said sensor is arranged in the air gap between the outer peripheral surface of the shaft and the peripheral surface of the recess.

4. The DC brushless motor for electrical power steering described in claim 3, said sensor comprising:

a census tester with a coil wound on the core; and

a sensor rotor arranged opposite to the census tester;

wherein said census tester is secured on the peripheral surface of the recess, while the sensor rotor is secured on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft so as to be positioned opposite to the census sensor through the air gap.

5. The DC brushless motor for electrical power steering described in claim 1, wherein a plurality of unit coils are electrically connected for each phase by the connection member arranged on one side of the coil end, and the flange equipped with said recess blocks the end on the side axially opposite to the coil end equipped with said connection member.

6. The DC brushless motor for electrical power steering described in claim 1, wherein the other end of the flange has a recess on the side axially opposite to the coil end, said recess on the other end of the flange being engaged with the tip of the coil end.

7. The DC brushless motor for electrical power steering described in claim 1, wherein the coil end opposite axially to the other end of the flange is covered with said molding agent so that an air gap is formed between the frame and air space;

the other end of said flange provided with an annular protrusion extending in the axial direction, and said protrusion being engaged with the air gap when the other end of the flange is secured on the frame.