Adapter for motor replacement and motor replacement method
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorSatoshi Adachi
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Abstract
An adapter for motor replacement includes fixing portions. The adapter has a shape of being placeable so as to be bridged between a housing that fixes a motor and a pulley that is fixed to the motor and transmits a rotary drive force via a belt and to avoid a space for removing the motor from the housing. The fixing portions are respectively fixed to the housing, to which the motor is fixed, and the pulley fixed to the motor.
Claims13
An adapter for motor replacement, for use with a drive mechanism that includes a motor, a housing in which the motor is disposed, the housing having a body, and a pulley that is fixed to the motor with a pulley-fixing fastener and that transmits a rotary drive force via a belt, comprising:
- a pulley-fixing portion including a first abutting surface;
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- at least one housing-fixing portion offset from the pulley-fixing portion and coupled to the pulley-fixing portion, the at least one housing-fixing portion including a second abutting surface, the first abutting surface and the second abutting surface being plane-parallel to each other;
- wherein the adapter is simultaneously fixable to the pulley and to a component of the housing;
- wherein, when the adapter is fixed to the pulley and the component of the housing, the first abutting surface abuts a surface of the pulley and the second abutting surface abuts a surface of the component of the housing;
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- wherein the component of the housing is the housing body or a housing cover.
An adapter for motor replacement, for use with a drive mechanism that includes a motor, a housing in which the motor is disposed, the housing having a body, and a pulley that is fixed to the motor with a pulley-fixing fastener and that transmits a rotary drive force via a belt, comprising:
- a pulley-fixing portion including a first abutting surface;
- at least one housing-fixing portion offset from the pulley-fixing portion and coupled to the pulley-fixing portion, the at least one housing-fixing portion including a second abutting surface, the first abutting surface and the second abutting surface being plane-parallel to each other;
- wherein the adapter is simultaneously fixable to the pulley and to the housing body;
- wherein, when the adapter is fixed to the pulley and to the housing body, the first abutting surface abuts a surface of the pulley and the second abutting surface abuts a surface of the housing body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.