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Granted Patent B2
US 12,362,643 · App. 18/320,210 · Granted Jul 15, 2025

Actuator

Inventor: Shinji Hatano (Nagano, JP)
Assignee: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
H02K33/16H02K1/34
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Patent No.
US 12,362,643
App. No.
18/320,210
Granted
Jul 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

This actuator includes a movable body provided with a magnet and a yoke, and a support body provided with a case and a coil. A first case member includes a first case third side plate portion and a first case fourth side plate portion that are opposed in an X direction. A coil holder includes press-fitted fixed portions that are press-fitted between the first case third side plate portion and the first case fourth side plate portion. The press-fitted fixed portions include one side fixing surface and an other side fixing surface that make contact with leading edge parts of the first case third side plate portion and the first case fourth side plate portion, which are in a Z 2 direction, from the inside, and parts further toward a Z 1 side than the fixed surfaces are recessed.

Claims (37)

1. An actuator comprising:

a movable body;

a support body provided with a metallic case that accommodates the movable body, and a coil holder made of resin;

a connecting body that is connected to the movable body and the support body; and

a magnetic drive circuit which is provided with a coil that is held by the coil holder, and a magnet that opposes the coil in a first direction, and which vibrates the movable body with respect to the support body in a second direction that intersects the first direction; wherein

the case is provided with:

a first case member, which has a first end plate portion that opposes the movable body from one side in the first direction, and a pair of first side plate portions that respectively extend toward an other side in the first direction from both ends of the first end plate portion in the second direction; and

a second case member, which has a second end plate portion that opposes the movable body from the other side in the first direction, and a pair of second side plate portions that cover the pair of first side plate portions and respectively extend toward the one side in the first direction from both ends of the second end plate portion in the second direction,

the coil holder is provided with a press-fitted fixed portion that is press-fitted between the pair of first side plate portions,

an end portion of the press-fitted fixed portion on one side in the second direction is provided with a one side fixing surface that makes contact with one of the pair of first side plate portions, and a part further toward the one side in the first direction than the one side fixing surface is recessed further toward an other side in the second direction than the one side fixing surface, and

an end portion of the press-fitted fixed portion on the other side in the second direction is provided with an other side fixing surface that makes contact with the other of the pair of first side plate portions, and a part further toward the one side in the first direction than the other side fixing surface is recessed further toward the one side in the second direction than the other side fixing surface.

2. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein,

the first case member is provided with a first case first side plate portion that extends toward the other side in the first direction from an end of the first end plate portion on one side in a third direction, and a first case second side plate portion that extends toward the other side in the first direction from an end of the first end plate portion on an other side in the third direction, the third direction being a direction that intersects the first direction and intersects the second direction,

the first case second side plate portion is provided with a first projection portion that protrudes toward the one side in the third direction, and

the coil holder is press-fitted between the first projection portion and the first case first side plate portion.

3. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein

one of the pair of second side plate portions is provided with a second projection portion that protrudes toward the other of the pair of second side plate portions,

the other of the pair of second side plate portions is provided with a third projection portion that protrudes toward the one of the pair of second side plate portions, and

the pair of first side plate portions is press-fitted between the second projection portion and the third projection portion.

4. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein

the movable body is provided with a yoke that holds the magnet,

the yoke is provided with a first opposing portion that opposes the coil from the one side in the first direction, a second opposing portion that opposes the coil from the other side in the first direction, and a pair of connection portions that extend in the first direction on both sides of the coil in the second direction and connect the first opposing portion and the second opposing portion,

each of the pair of first side plate portions is provided with a side plate central portion that covers the connection portion, and a side plate end part disposed on both sides of the side plate central portion in a third direction in a position recessed further inward than the side plate central portion, the third direction being a direction that intersects the first direction and intersects the second direction, and

the press-fitted fixed portion is press-fitted between the pair of side plate end parts that are opposed in the second direction.

5. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein

the coil holder is provided with a first holder member having a first coil holding portion disposed on one side of the coil in a third direction, and a second holder member having a second coil holding portion disposed on an other side of the coil in the third direction, the third direction being a direction that intersects the first direction and intersects the second direction, and

the press-fitted fixed portion is provided on each of the first holder member and the second holder member.

6. The actuator according to claim 5 , wherein

the first holder member is provided with a first holder side plate portion that extends toward the first direction from an end of the first coil holding portion on the one side in the third direction, and a pair of first holder projection portions that protrude toward the other side in the third direction from edges of the first holder side plate portion on both sides in the second direction,

the second holder member is provided with a second holder side plate portion that extends toward the first direction from an end of the second coil holding portion on the other side in the third direction, and a pair of second holder projection portions that protrude toward the one side in the third direction from edges of the second holder side plate portion on both sides in the second direction,

the one side fixing surface is provided on each of one of the pair of first holder projection portions and one of the pair of second holder projection portions, and

the other side fixing surface is provided on each of the other of the pair of first holder projection portions and the other of the pair of second holder projection portions.

7. The actuator according to claim 6 , wherein

the movable body is provided with a yoke that holds the magnet,

the yoke is provided with a first opposing portion that opposes the coil from the one side in the first direction, a second opposing portion that opposes the coil from the other side in the first direction, and a pair of connection portions that extend in the first direction on both sides of the coil in the second direction and connect the first opposing portion and the second opposing portion,

an end portion of each of the first opposing portion and the second opposing portion on the one side in the third direction is disposed between the pair of first holder projection portions, and

an end portion of each of the first opposing portion and the second opposing portion on the other side in the third direction is disposed between the pair of second holder projection portions.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 22, 2023
From: HATANO, SHINJI
To: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063711/0116 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-086492 · May 27, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230387771A1 · Nov 30, 2023
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