# US 5,345,767 A · Vibration motor > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 5,345,767 A - Document ID: US5345767A - Status: Granted - Kind: A - Application number: 07/845,428 - Filed: 1992-03-04 - Granted: 1994-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 1991-03-05 - Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Mitsuhiro Ando; Tomokimi Mizuno; Yoshihiro Naruse; Iwao Fujimasa - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5345767A ## CPC - F03G 7/008: {characterised by the actuating element (actuating elements for mechanical power producing mechanism using expansion or contraction of bodies due to heating, cooling, moistening, drying or the like F03G7/061)} - F03G 7/002: {using the energy of vibration of fluid columns} - F03G 7/0614: {using shape memory elements} - Y10T 74/1531: Multiple acting - F03G: SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS; MECHANICAL-POWER PRODUCING DEVICES OR MECHANISMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR OR USING ENERGY SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (arrangements in connection with power supply in vehicles from force of nature B60K16/00; electric propulsion with power supply in vehicles from force of nature B60L8/00) - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract A vibration motor comprises a first member for receiving an external vibration, a second member set to be brought into collision with the first member as a result of the receipt of the external vibration, and a converting mechanism provided at the first member and/or the second member and having an asymmetric configuration for establishing a relative movement of the second member upon collision of the first member thereto. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A motor device, comprising: an annular member movable linearly in a direction normal to an axis of the annular member in response to an applied external reciprocal vibratory pressure; a plurality of equally pitched inwardly extending projections positioned at an inner annulus edge of the annular member, the distal end of each of the projections being bent obliquely to the radii of the annular member; a rotatable shaft member having an axis and mounted coaxially within the annulus of the annular member; and a plurality of equally pitched outward projections extending in radial alignment with a radial line of the rotatable shaft member, the outward projections being spaced from the inward projections, the inward extending projections being brought into engagement with the outward extending projection in response to the external reciprocal vibratory movement of the annular member, the vibratory engagement rotating the shaft member in a single direction. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A motor device according to claim 1 wherein each of the inwardly extending projections is in the form of a bimetal temperature sensitive device. ### Claim 3 A motor device comprising: a first member having a first plurality of equally pitched projections, said member being reciprocally vibratable; a second member having an axis, mounted adjacent the first member, the second member having a second plurality of equally pitched projections opposing and spaced from the first plurality of projections; at least the plurality of projections of one of the first and second members each having a surface that extends obliquely to corresponding opposing surfaces of the plurality of projections of the other of the first and second members; the first member, the second member and the projections being disposed and dimensioned for the oblique surfaces of the projections to engage the opposing projections to move the second member in one direction in response to the vibratory reciprocation of the first member. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) A motor device according to claim 3 further comprising a base member, wherein the first member includes a horizontally extended shaft with a plurality of vertical projections mounted to the base member so as to be reciprocally vibratable in a radial direction, the second member being movably mounted to the base member to move in the direction of the axis of the second member direction the plurality of projections being longitudinally disposed and a shape memory effect alloy in periodic engagement with the longitudinal projections disposed to cause vibratory reciprocal movement of the shaft. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) A motor device according to claim 3 wherein the first member is formed into an annulus having a plurality of circumferentially arranged segments, said segments being reciprocally vibratable in the radial direction in response to external vibration, the second member includes a rotatable shaft, and the plurality of projections on the rotatable shaft each being asymmetric with respect to a radial line of the rotatable shaft and the plurality of projections of the second member being provided at an inner side of the annulus with each projection of the annulus being opposed to a corresponding projection of the rotatable shaft, each projection of the annulus being engagable and in radial alignment with the rotatable shaft. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) A motor device according to claim 3 wherein the first member is formed into a rectangular body, the second member is a cylinder having a rectangular cross section, a first plurality of projections are provided on first opposite sides of the rectangular body, a second plurality of projections are provided on second opposite sides of the rectangular body adjacent to the first opposite sides of the rectangular body. ### Claim 7 (depends on 3) The device of claim 3 wherein the first member is annular and is reciprocable in a radial direction. ### Claim 8 (depends on 8) The device of claim 8 wherein the second member rotates in one direction. ### Claim 9 A motor device, comprising: an annular member movable linearly in a direction normal to an axis of the annular member in response to an applied external reciprocal vibratory pressure; a plurality of equally pitched inwardly extending bi-metallic projections positioned at an inner annulus edge of the annular member; the distal end of each of the projections being bent in one direction obliquely to the radii of the annular member; a rotatable shaft member having an axis and mounted coaxially within the annulus of the annular member; and a plurality of equally pitched outward projections extending in radial alignment with a radial line of the rotatable shaft member, the inward extending projections being brought into engagement with the outward extending projection in response to the external reciprocal vibratory movement of the annular member, the vibratory engagement rotating the shaft member in the one direction; and wherein the bimetal projections bend in the opposite oblique direction in accordance with a predetermined temperature for reversing rotation of the shaft member to turn in the opposite direction. ### Claim 10 A motor device comprising: a first member having a first plurality of equally pitched projections, said member being reciprocally vibratable; a second member having an axis, mounted adjacent the first member, the second member having a second plurality of equally pitched projections opposing the first plurality of projections; at least the plurality of projections of one of the first and second members each being of bimetal and having a surface that extends obliquely to corresponding opposing surfaces of the plurality of projections of the other of the first and second members; the first member, the second member and the projections being disposed and dimensioned for the oblique surfaces of the bimetal projections to engage the opposing projections to move the second member in one direction in response to the vibratory reciprocation of the first member, wherein the bimetal projections bend in the opposite oblique direction in accordance with a predetermined temperature for reversing rotation of the shaft member to the opposite direction.