IP Library Granted Patent US 10,559,996
Granted Patent B2
US 10,559,996 · App. 15/963,525 · Granted Feb 11, 2020

Brush system of an electric motor

Inventor: Michael Bock (Waldbuettelbrunn, DE)
Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
H02K5/148H01R39/381
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Patent No.
US 10,559,996
App. No.
15/963,525
Granted
Feb 11, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A brush system of an electric motor, having a commutator, at least one brush that is guided within a brush duct and is provided with a connection line, and a spring element that exerts a spring force on the brush when the spring element is effectively connected thereto, such that the brush rests against the commutator; the brush duct includes a longitudinal duct slot inside which the connection line extends and which has a constriction that the connection line penetrates when the effective connection between the spring element and the brush is established.

Claims (24)

1. A brush system of an electric motor comprising:

a commutator;

at least one brush guided in a brush duct; and

a connecting line; and

a spring element that, in an operative connection with the brush, exerts a spring force thereon to place the brush against the commutator,

wherein the brush duct has a longitudinal duct slot guiding the connecting line, and

wherein the longitudinal duct slot of the brush duct has a constriction through which the connecting line passes when the operative connection of the spring element with the brush is established.

2. The brush system according to claim 1 , wherein the spring element is a leg spring that is placed on a pivot formed outside the brush duct on a brush plate.

3. The brush system according to claim 1 , wherein the spring element has one fixed spring leg and one movable pressure leg that is moveable from a rest position to a pressure position on the brush that establishes the operative connection.

4. The brush system according to claim 3 , wherein the pressure leg is a leg of a free end of the spring element bent into a U-shape.

5. The brush system according to claim 1 , wherein the spring element, in operative connection with the brush, is guided in a guide slot extending in a direction of brush pressure in a side duct wall of the brush duct.

6. The brush system according to claim 1 , wherein the constriction is formed by edge bulges on both sides of the longitudinal duct slot that project into the same.

7. The brush system according to claim 1 , wherein a clear width of the constriction is at least slightly smaller than or is equal to a diameter of the connecting line.

8. The brush system according to claim 1 , wherein the longitudinal duct slot is located on a top duct side of the brush duct facing away from a brush plate.

9. An electric motor comprising a brush system according to claim 1 .

10. A brush system of an electric motor comprising:

a commutator;

at least one brush guided in a brush duct; and

a connecting line; and

a spring element that, in an operative connection with the brush, exerts a spring force thereon to place the brush against the commutator,

wherein the brush duct has a longitudinal duct slot guiding the connecting line, and

wherein the brush duct has a constriction through which the connecting line passes when the operative connection of the spring element with the brush is established,

wherein the spring element, in operative connection with the brush, is guided in a guide slot extending in a direction of brush pressure in a side duct wall of the brush duct, and

wherein the side duct wall of the brush duct has a retaining contour in which a pressure leg of the spring element is held in the rest position.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 12, 2022
From: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE SE & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, WÜRZBURG
To: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE SE & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, BAMBERG
Reel/Frame 062052/0253 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 12, 2022
From: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, WUERZBURG
To: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE SE & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, WÜRZBURG
Reel/Frame 062114/0784 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEE'S NAME PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 045990 FRAME: 0083. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT . Recorded Dec 18, 2019
From: BOCK, MICHAEL
To: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, WUERZBURG
Reel/Frame 051365/0293 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 5, 2018
From: BOCK, MICHAEL
To: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 045990/0083 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2015 220 897 · Oct 26, 2015 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTEP2016073492 · Sep 30, 2016
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