IP Library Granted Patent US 7,679,240
Granted Patent B2
US 7,679,240 · App. 12/199,908 · Granted Mar 16, 2010

Vibration motor

Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.; Sanyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 7,679,240
App. No.
12/199,908
Granted
Mar 16, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vibration motor having an eccentric weight 20 includes a tubular metal holder frame 30 with a flat bottom part 31 and a wall surface 32 , the flat bottom part 31 having an inner projection 31 f with a bottom-up recess part W, the upper wall surface 32 being domed; a pair of external terminal pieces 14 and 15 attached to a plastic end cap 13 , wherein the plastic end cap 13 has spacer projections 13 b and 13 c inserted between the motor case 11 and the flat bottom part 31.

Claims (6)

1. A vibration motor comprising:

a vibration motor main body provided with a motor shaft projected from a motor case, an eccentric weight being attached to said motor shaft;

a metal holder frame having a tubular shape, the tubular shape surrounding the vibration motor main body and comprising a flat bottom part and a wall surface, said flat bottom part having an inner projection with a bottom-up recess part, said wall surface having a domed profile rising up from both-side edges of said flat bottom part; and

a plastic end cap including a pair of external terminal pieces attached to the plastic end cap for closing an opening of the motor case at an end opposite to said eccentric weight; wherein

said plastic end cap integrally and unitarily includes a pair of spacer parts inserted between and abutting against said motor case and the inner sides of the both-side edges of said flat bottom part to exert wedge pressure.

2. The vibration motor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said metal holder frame integrally and unitarily comprises tapered projections each having a rectangular cross section, said tapered projections being projected to the both sides of said eccentric weight from the both-side edges of said flat bottom part.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 15, 2011
From: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
To: SANYO SEIMITSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 026599/0577 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 2, 2008
From: KONO, KENJI
To: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; SANYO SEIMITSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021468/0933 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2007-243592 · Sep 20, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20090079282A1 · Mar 26, 2009