IP Library Granted Patent US 10,027,196
Granted Patent B2
US 10,027,196 · App. 14/622,854 · Granted Jul 17, 2018

Electric tool

Inventors: Kenichirou Yoshida (Ibaraki, JP); Shinji Kuragano (Ibaraki, JP)
Assignee: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
H02K3/28H02K7/145
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Patent No.
US 10,027,196
App. No.
14/622,854
Granted
Jul 17, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electric tool includes a brushless motor having a plurality of phases, the brushless motor. The brushless motor includes a plurality of stator coils connected in parallel with each of the plurality of phases, and a plurality of crossover wires, each of the crossover wires being configured to electrically connect the plurality of stator coils for each of the plurality of phases to each other. The plurality of crossover wires for the plurality of phases are electrically connected to each other.

Claims (23)

1. An electric tool comprising:

a brushless motor having a plurality of phases, the brushless motor including:

a plurality of stator coils connected in parallel with each of the plurality of phases, and

a plurality of crossover wires, each of the crossover wires being configured to electrically connect the plurality of stator coils for each of the plurality of phases to each other,

wherein a crossover wire of each of the plurality of phases extends around a rotary shaft of the brushless motor at one axial end-side of the brushless motor, and at least portions of the crossover wires overlap in a direction of the rotary shaft of the brushless motor

wherein the crossover wires which are overlapped have insulating sheath-removed portions

wherein the plurality of crossover wires for the plurality of phases are electrically connected to each other at the insulating sheath-removed portions.

2. The electric tool according to claim 1 , wherein the crossover wires of all the plurality of phases are electrically connected to each other at one place.

3. The electric tool according to claim 1 , wherein the crossover wires of the plurality of phases belonging to any combination of two of the plurality of phases are electrically connected to each other at a position different from a place where the crossover wires of the plurality of phases belonging to another combination of two of the plurality of phases are electrically connected to each other, and the crossover wires of all phases are electrically connected to each other.

4. The electric tool according to claim 1 , wherein the crossover wires of the plurality of phases are bound by a conductive wire material.

5. The electric tool according to claim 4 , wherein portions of the crossover wires of the plurality of phases bound by the conductive wire material are soldered.

6. The electric tool according to claim 5 , wherein surfaces of the soldered portion are covered with an insulating material.

7. The electric tool according to claim 1 , wherein an insulator is provided on one end surface of a stator core of the brushless motor, the crossover wires of the respective phases extend around a rotary shaft of the brushless motor on an opposite surface of the insulator to the stator core and are electrically connected to each other on the surface of the insulator.

8. The electric tool according to claim 7 , wherein the insulator has a convex part configured to raise both sides of portions of the crossover wires of the plurality of phases bound by the conductive wire material.

9. The electric tool according to claim 1 , wherein an opposite end portion of each stator coil to the crossover wire is drawn out towards one axial side of the brushless motor by a lead wire part and the crossover wire exists at the other axial side.

10. The electric tool according to claim 9 , wherein the one axial side of the brushless motor is provided with a switching substrate to which the lead wire part is electrically connected.

11. The electric tool according to claim 1 , wherein the brushless motor is a three-phase brushless motor and the stator coils thereof are Y-connected.

12. An electric tool comprising:

a brushless motor having a plurality of phases, the brushless motor including:

a plurality of stator coils connected in parallel with each of the plurality of phases,

a plurality of crossover wires, each of the crossover wires being configured to electrically connect the plurality of stator coils for each of the plurality of phases to each other, wherein an opposite end portion of each of the stator coils to the crossover wire is drawn out by a lead wire part, and

wherein the crossover wires for the plurality of phases or the crossover wire for one of the plurality of phases and the lead wire parts of the other phases extend around a rotary shaft of the brushless motor at one axial end-side of the brushless motor, are bound by a conductive wire material and are electrically connected to each other.

13. The electric tool according to claim 12 , wherein an insulator is provided on one end surface of a stator core of the brushless motor, the crossover wires of the respective phases and the lead wire parts are electrically connected to each other on an opposite surface of the insulator to the stator core.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 26, 2018
From: HITACHI KOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: KOKI HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 047270/0107 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 14, 2015
From: YOSHIDA, KENICHIROU; KURAGANO, SHINJI
To: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 035000/0295 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-037384 · Feb 27, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150244226A1 · Aug 27, 2015
Cited By (1)
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