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Granted Patent B2
US 10,938,262 · App. 16/319,553 · Granted Mar 2, 2021

Motor and electric power steering device

Inventors: Takashi Hattori (Kyoto, JP); Takahiro Kizu (Kyoto, JP); Toshiya Okamoto (Kyoto, JP); Yuichi Nishikawa (Kyoto, JP); Yoshiaki Yamashita (Kyoto, JP); Mitsuo Kodama (Kyoto, JP); Yuya Saito (Kyoto, JP); Shingo Fukumoto (Kyoto, JP); Chiharu Kobayashi (Kyoto, JP)
Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
H02K3/50H02K9/22H02K11/33B62D5/0403H02K2203/06H02K2211/03
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Patent No.
US 10,938,262
App. No.
16/319,553
Granted
Mar 2, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A motor includes a rotor including a shaft extending axially, a stator surrounding a radial outside of the rotor and including a coil defined by a wound coil wire, a holder disposed on an axially upper side of the stator, the coil wire being inserted into the holder, the holder including through-holes extending axially, and a circuit board disposed on the axially upper side of the holder, an electronic component being mounted on the circuit board. When the holder is viewed from the axially upper side, the through-holes are located in a region where a center angle (α) centered on the shaft is less than or equal to 180 degrees.

Claims (28)

1. A motor comprising:

a rotor including a shaft extending axially;

a stator surrounding a radial outside of the rotor and including a coil defined by a wound coil wire;

a holder on an axially upper side of the stator, the coil wire being inserted into the holder, the holder including a plurality of through-holes extending axially and a heat sink; and

a circuit board on the axially upper side of the holder, an electronic component being mounted on the circuit board; wherein

the plurality of through-holes are located in a region where a center angle centered on the shaft is less than or equal to 180 degrees when the holder is viewed from the axially upper side;

the stator includes two systems including two pairs of a U-phase, a V-phase, and a W-phase of coils;

each of the plurality of through-holes respectively contains only multiple in-phase coil wires of a same single one of the U-phase, the V-phase, and the W-phase of coils;

the plurality of through-holes are spaced apart from each other to separate each of the U-phase, the V-phase, and the W-phase of coils;

the circuit board includes a first region where a power supply is mounted and a second region where a controller is mounted;

the first region and the second region are provided at different locations in a circumferential direction of the circuit board such that the first region and the second region do not overlap when viewed in a plan view of the circuit board; and

the plurality of through-holes are located in the first region when viewed from the axially upper side.

2. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein the first region is a region where the center angle centered on the shaft is less than or equal to 180 degrees when viewed from the axial upper side.

3. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein

a number of slots of the coil is greater than or equal to 6; and

the center angle is less than or equal to (360 degrees/the number of slots)×3 degrees.

4. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of through-holes are circumferentially located at intervals.

5. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein

the heat sink includes a contact surface contacting directly with the circuit board or the electronic component or contacting indirectly with the circuit board or the electronic component with a heat dissipator interposed therebetween and an exposed surface that does not contact with another member;

the exposed surface is located circumferentially outside the plurality of through-holes; and

a boundary between the contact surface and the exposed surface is located circumferentially.

6. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein

the heat sink includes a circuit board abutment abutting axially on the circuit board; and

the plurality of through-holes and the circuit board abutment are provided with an interval in a circumferential direction.

7. The motor according to claim 6 , wherein

a plurality of the circuit board abutments are provided; and

the two circuit board abutments and the through-holes located at both ends in the circumferential direction among the plurality of through-holes are provided with an interval in the circumferential direction.

8. An electric power steering device comprising the motor according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 22, 2019
From: HATTORI, TAKASHI; KIZU, TAKAHIRO; OKAMOTO, TOSHIYA; NISHIKAWA, YUICHI; YAMASHITA, YOSHIAKI; KODAMA, MITSUO; SAITO, YUYA; FUKUMOTO, SHINGO; KOBAYASHI, CHIHARU
To: NIDEC CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2016-158338 · Aug 12, 2016 · national
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62425668 · Nov 23, 2016
Related Publication 20190267862A1 · Aug 29, 2019
Cited By (2)
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