IP Library Granted Patent US 8,698,366
Granted Patent B2
US 8,698,366 · App. 13/022,053 · Granted Apr 15, 2014

Flat type vibration motor

Inventor: Naoki Kanai (Ueda, JP)
Assignees: Nidec Semitsu Corporation; Sanyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd
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Patent No.
US 8,698,366
App. No.
13/022,053
Granted
Apr 15, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A flat type vibration motor realizing strong fastening of a rotor frame and an eccentric weight without welding, that is, a flat type vibration motor provided with a cover case having a tubular part with an opening closed by a stator structure and supporting one end of a shaft and with a rotor frame supported to be able to rotate via a slide bearing through which the shaft runs and having an axial direction field-type rotary magnet and an eccentric weight, wherein the rotor frame has a disk part having a burring part into which a slide bearing is fitted and at least one rivet hole, while the eccentric weight has a covering part superposed over the disk part at the side opposite to the stator structure, at least one rivet which is inserted from the covering part through the rivet hole and have heads which are crushed at the stator structure side of the disk part, and an eave-shaped taper part hanging down from the covering part over the outer circumferential edge of the disk part to the stator structure side.

Claims (27)

1. A flat type vibration motor, comprising:

a cover case having a burring part to provide an inner end and a tubular part to provide an outer end;

a stator structure provided at the outer end;

a shaft having a first end and a second end, the first end being fitted in the burring part, the second end being supported by the stator structure;

a rotor frame provided in an area surrounded by the cover case and the stator structure, the rotor frame having an upper surface and a lower surface, the rotor frame having a rivet hole passing through the upper surface and the lower surface,

a slide bearing having a though hole, the shaft slidably passing through the through hole, the rotor frame provided on an outside of the slide bearing,

an axial direction field-type rotary magnet provided on the lower surface,

an eccentric weight provided on the upper surface,

wherein the eccentric weight is a monolithic member comprising:

a covering part extending in the direction of the shaft, and

an eccentric weight part eccentrically provided with respect to the shaft, a part of the covering part located right above the axial direction field-type rotary magnet.

2. A flat type vibration motor as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the rivet hole is located right above the axial direction field-type rotary magnet.

3. A flat type vibration motor as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the eccentric weight part is an eave-shaped taper part hanging down from the covering part over an outer circumferential edge of the rotor frame to the stator structure side.

4. A flat type vibration motor as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the eccentric weight has a bearing holder extending from the covering part, wherein the bearing holder is located right above the axial direction field-type rotary magnet.

5. A flat type vibration motor, comprising:

a cover case having a burring part to provide an inner end and a tubular part to provide an outer end;

a stator structure provided at the outer end;

a shaft having a first end and a second end, the first end being fitted in the burring part, the second end being supported by the stator structure;

a rotor frame provided in an area surrounded by the cover case and the stator structure, the rotor frame having an upper surface and a lower surface, the rotor frame having a rivet hole passing through the upper surface and the lower surface,

a slide bearing having a though hole, the shaft slidably passing through the through hole, the rotor frame provided on an outside of the slide bearing,

an axial direction field-type rotary magnet provided on the lower surface,

an eccentric weight provided on the upper surface,

wherein the eccentric weight monolithically comprises:

a covering part extending in the direction of the shaft, a part of the covering part located right above the axial direction field-type rotary magnet, and

an eave-shaped taper part hanging down from the covering part over an outer circumferential edge of the rotor frame to the stator structure side.

6. A flat type vibration motor as set forth in claim 5 , wherein the rivet hole is located right above the axial direction field-type rotary magnet.

7. A flat type vibration motor as set forth in claim 5 , wherein the eccentric weight has a bearing holder extending from the covering part, wherein the bearing holder is located right above the axial direction field-type rotary magnet.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 25, 2012
From: SANYO SEIMITSU CO., LTD.
To: NIDEC SEIMITSU CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 027591/0487 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 15, 2011
From: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
To: SANYO SEIMITSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 026599/0577 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 17, 2011
From: KANAI, NAOKI
To: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; SANYO SEIMITSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 025825/0624 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2010-103346 · Apr 28, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20110266901A1 · Nov 3, 2011