Motor device
AssigneeMitsuba Corporation
InventorsNaoki Ogata, Yutaro Jo, Daiki Yamamoto
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Abstract
In a motor device, since the bearing support member mounted to the housing and supporting, from the axial direction, the another axial side of the ball bearing (outer race) includes the annular support part (annular flat surface) which supports, from the axial direction, the entire circumference of the another axial side of the ball bearing (outer race), tilting of the ball bearing with respect to the housing can be suppressed in the case where a lateral force acts on the rotating shaft. Therefore, it is possible to improve the fixing strength of the ball bearing to the housing, and thus suppress rattling of the speed reduction mechanism.
Claims3
A motor device comprising:
- a motor comprising a rotor and a rotating shaft being fixed at a center of rotation of the rotor;
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- a speed reduction mechanism which reduces speed of rotation of the rotating shaft,
- the motor device further comprising:
- a bearing member which rotatably supports the rotating shaft;
- a housing which accommodates the speed reduction mechanism and supports one axial side of the bearing member from an axial direction;
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- a bearing support member which is mounted to the housing and supports another axial side of the bearing member from the axial direction, wherein
- the bearing support member comprises an annular support part which supports, from the axial direction, an entire circumference of the another axial side of the bearing member, wherein an outer diameter dimension of the rotor is smaller than a minimum inner diameter dimension of the annular support part, and a pair of positioning protrusions protruding from the annular support part toward the one axial side, wherein an outer race of bearing member enters between the pair of positioning protrusions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.