IP Library Granted Patent US 10,181,766
Granted Patent B2
US 10,181,766 · App. 15/472,323 · Granted Jan 15, 2019

Motor including bus bars and bus bar holder

Inventors: Hidehiro Haga (Kyoto, JP); Ryusuke Sato (Kyoto, JP); Masashi Sonoda (Kyoto, JP)
Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
H02K5/225H02K3/28H02K3/50H02K3/522H02K7/083H02K11/21H02K11/215H02K2203/03
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Patent No.
US 10,181,766
App. No.
15/472,323
Granted
Jan 15, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A motor includes a rotor with a shaft, a stator, first and second bearings supporting the shaft, a bus bar assembly holding the second bearing, a circuit board, a sensor magnet fixed to the shaft, and a rotation sensor which is attached to the circuit board and faces a direction. The bus bar assembly includes a bus bar and a bus bar holder. The bus bar holder includes a cylindrical main body portion including an opening at a second side. The bus bar includes a coil connection portion that protrudes from an inner surface of the main body portion and is electrically connected to a coil of the stator. The end of the second side of the coil connection portion is located at a second side ahead of a surface of a first side of the circuit board.

Claims (38)

1. A motor, comprising:

a rotor including a shaft with a center on a center axis extending in one direction toward both a first side and a second side;

a stator enclosing the rotor and rotating the rotor about the center axis;

a first bearing located at a first side of the stator in the one direction and supporting the shaft;

a second bearing located at a second side of the stator in the one direction opposite to the first side of the stator and supporting the shaft;

a cylindrical housing holding the stator and the first bearing;

a bus bar assembly holding the second bearing, and allowing an end of a first side of the bus bar assembly to be located in the housing;

a cover fixed to the housing to cover at least a portion of a second side of the bus bar assembly;

a circuit board disposed between the second bearing and the cover in the one direction, and allowing a surface of a second side of the circuit board to cross the one direction;

a sensor magnet directly or indirectly fixed to the shaft at a second side of the second bearing; and

a rotation sensor which is attached to the circuit board, and faces the sensor magnet in the one direction; wherein

the bus bar assembly includes:

a bus bar electrically connected to the stator;

a wiring member electrically connecting an external power supply to the circuit board; and

a bus bar holder holding the bus bar and the wiring member;

the bus bar holder includes:

a cylindrical main body portion including an opening at a second side of the cylindrical main body portion; and

a connector portion protruding from the main body portion toward a radially outer side of the center axis;

the wiring member includes:

an external power-supply connection terminal provided to the connector portion to be electrically connected to the external power-supply; and

a circuit board connection terminal electrically connected to the circuit board;

the bus bar includes a coil connection portion that protrudes from an inner surface of the main body portion and is electrically connected to a coil of the stator;

an end of a second side of the coil connection portion is located ahead of a surface of a first side of the circuit board toward the second side of the circuit board;

the bus bar holder includes a second bearing holding portion that holds the second bearing, and a connection portion that connects the main body portion to the second bearing holding portion;

the connection portion is located at a second side of the connection portion ahead of an end of a first side of the second bearing holding portion; and

at least a portion of the sensor magnet overlaps with the connection portion in a radial direction.

2. The motor of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the coil connection portion overlaps with the circuit board in the radial direction.

3. The motor of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the second bearing holding portion overlaps with the stator in the radial direction.

4. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the surface of the second side of the circuit board is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the one direction.

5. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the circuit board connection terminal and the coil connection portion are located at different positions in a circumferential direction of the center axis.

6. The motor of claim 1 , further comprising:

a sensor magnet holding portion attached to the shaft and holding the sensor magnet;

wherein

at least a portion of the sensor magnet holding portion overlaps with the second bearing in the radial direction.

7. The motor of claim 1 , wherein:

the circuit board connection terminal includes a plate-shaped portion; and

the plate-shaped portion includes a connection surface parallel or substantially parallel to the surface of the second side of the circuit board; wherein

the connection surface is in contact with the surface of the second side of the circuit board.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2017
From: HAGA, HIDEHIRO; SATO, RYUSUKE; SONODA, MASASHI
To: NIDEC CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-201415 · Sep 30, 2014 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2015076571 · Sep 17, 2015
Related Publication 20170201150A1 · Jul 13, 2017
Cited By (1)
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