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Granted Patent B2
US 12,407,234 · App. 18/324,126 · Granted Sep 2, 2025

Actuator

Inventor: Shinji Hatano (Nagano, JP)
Assignee: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
H02K33/18
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,407,234
App. No.
18/324,126
Granted
Sep 2, 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 that vibrates the movable body. The case includes a first case member having a first end plate portion opposing the movable body from a Z1 direction, and a second case member having a second end plate portion opposing the movable body from a Z2 direction. The first case member includes a first case first side plate portion extending toward the Z2 direction from a Y1 direction end of the first end plate portion, and a first case second side plate portion extending toward the Z2 direction from a Y2 direction end of the first end plate portion. The first case second side plate portion includes a first projection portion. The coil holder is press-fitted between the first projection portion and first case first side plate portion.

Claims (38)

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 having a first end plate portion that opposes the movable body from one side in the first direction, and a second case member having a second end plate portion that opposes the movable body from an other side in the first direction,

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 on one side of the first end plate portion 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 on an other side of the first end plate portion 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.

2. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein

in the first projection portion, a surface on the other side in the third direction has a concave shape, and a surface on the one side in the third direction is a half punched portion having a convex shape.

3. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein

the coil holder is provided with a contact surface that makes contact with the first case first side plate portion from the other side in the third direction, and a substrate fixing portion that protrudes from the contact surface toward the one side of the first case first side plate portion in the third direction.

4. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein

the coil holder comprises

a first holder member provided with a first coil holding portion disposed on the one side of the coil in the third direction, and a first holder side plate portion that extends in the first direction from an end of the first coil holding portion on the one side in the third direction, and

a second holder member provided with a second coil holding portion disposed on the other side of the coil in the third direction, and a second holder side plate portion that extends in the first direction from an end of the second coil holding portion on the other side in the third direction,

the first holder member and the second holder member are fixed via a metallic first plate, which overlaps the first coil holding portion and the second coil holding portion from the one side in the first direction, and a metallic second plate, which overlaps the first coil holding portion and the second coil holding portion from the other side in the first direction,

the first projection portion makes contact with the second holder side plate portion from the other side in the third direction, and

the first holder side plate portion makes contact with the first case first side plate portion from the other side in the third direction.

5. The actuator according to claim 4 , 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,

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

an end portion 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 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.

6. The actuator according to claim 5 , wherein

the first case member is provided with a first case third 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 the second direction, and a first case fourth 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 second direction, and

the pair of first holder projection portions and the pair of second holder projection portions are press-fitted between the first case third side plate portion and the first case fourth side plate portion.

7. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein

the first case member is provided with a first case third 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 the second direction, and a first case fourth 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 second direction,

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

the first case third side plate portion and the first case fourth side plate portion are press-fitted between the second case third side plate portion and the second case fourth side plate portion.

8. The actuator according to claim 7 , wherein

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

one of the second case fourth side plate portion and the first case fourth side plate portion is provided with a third projection portion that protrudes toward the other of the second case fourth side plate portion and the first case fourth side plate portion.

9. The actuator according to claim 8 , wherein

the second projection portion and the third projection portion are half punched portions.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 29, 2023
From: HATANO, SHINJI
To: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063786/0534 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-086491 · May 27, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230387772A1 · Nov 30, 2023
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