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US 2004/0201295 A1Published application
Electric motor
AssigneeShowa Corporation
InventorsYohei Hama, Akira Fujisaki
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Abstract
An electric motor is disclosed in which a rising wall is formed in a rear side of a terminal insertion hole in a brush holder, a terminal elastically deforms with respect to an upper surface of the rising wall so as to get over the rising wall, thereby being inserted into the terminal insertion hole, and a bent base end portion of the terminal is abutted against the rising wall so as to be prevented from coming off, an elastic deforming performance regulating portion is provided in the terminal.
Claims12
An electric motor comprising:
- a brush holding portion provided in a brush holder;
- a terminal insertion hole to which a terminal connected to a brush is insertable, the terminal insertion hole being provided in a feed connector integrally formed with the brush holder;
- a rising wall disposed in a rear side of the terminal insertion hole in the brush holder;
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- the terminal arranged and constructed to overcome the rising wall in accordance with an elastic deformation with respect to an upper surface of the rising wall, being insertable into the terminal insertion hole, and being prevented from unintentional disassembly on the basis of abutment of a base end portion of the terminal against the rising wall,
- wherein the terminal is provided with an elastic deforming performance regulating portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.