Power-door opening and closing device and automobile provided with opening and closing device

• US 9,845,630 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2014
• Issued: 12/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation (Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation (Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Kazuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): KNIGHT, DEREK DOUGLAS
• Application Number:
  US15/314,499
• Publication Number:
  US 20170198515A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,106 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/106 comprising door or part of door being moveable by a linkage system to open/close position
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/611 for swinging wings
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/63 operated by swinging arms
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/72 Planetary gearing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/21 of identical elements, e.g. of identical compression springs
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/546 Tailboards, tailgates or sideboards opening upwards
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 1/28 with gears having orbital motion
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 21/40 for interconverting rotary motion and oscillating motion
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 57/08 of gearings with members having orbital motion

Abstract

A power door opening device comprises a casing; a motor mounted to the casing; a planetary gear unit housed in the casing to reduce rotation speed of the motor; and an output mechanism that transmits reduced rotation from the planetary gear unit to a door to open and close the door. The planetary gear unit comprises a sun gear that rotates with a rotary shaft of the motor; a planetary carrier fixed in the casing; a planetary gear that is rotatably supported to the planetary carrier and meshes with the sun gear; and a ring gear that is rotatably supported in the casing and meshes with the planetary gear. Both ends of the sun gear are supported.

Claims

1. A clutchless power door opening device comprising:

a casing;

a motor mounted to the casing;

a planetary gear unit housed in the casing to reduce rotation speed of the motor; and

an output mechanism that transmits reduced rotation from the planetary gear to the door to open and close the door,

wherein the planetary gear unit comprises a sun gear that rotates with a rotary shaft of the motor, a planetary carrier fixed in the casing, a planetary gear that is rototably supported to the planetary carrier and meshes with the sun gear, and a ring gear that is rotatably supported in the casing and meshes with the planetary gear,

wherein one end of the sun gear fits in the rotary shaft of the motor so that the sun gear rotates together with the rotary shaft of the motor and the other end is supported to rotate in the planetary carrier whereby the sun gear is supported at both ends.

2. The clutchless power door opening device of claim 1 wherein modules of the planetary gear and the ring gear of the planetary gear unit are about 0.6.

3. A motor vehicle in which the clutchless power door opening device of claim 1 is mounted at a rear part of a vehicle body,

wherein operating noise measured in a vehicle ranges from 46.3 to 51.6 db when the motor is actuated at a voltage of 11.8 to 12.0 V to open and close the door.

4. The clutchless power door opening device of claim 1, wherein a central portion of the ring gear fits in a central portion of the planetary carrier axially of the rotary shaft of the motor.