Motor shaft caulked within groove of eccentric load
AssigneeMitsubishi Materials C.M.I. Corporation
InventorMasayuki Shibuta
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Abstract
There is provided a vibrator which is integrally coupled to a rotating shaft of a motor. A groove portion in which the rotating shaft is fitted is formed in an eccentric load portion, and side walls extending from the eccentric load portion and forming both side edge portions of the groove portion are provided. A portion of a tip portion end surface of each side wall, except at an outer peripheral portion of the side wall and at a side of the groove portion, is caulked from an opening side of the groove portion toward a bottom side thereof, so that the vibrator is integrally coupled to the rotating shaft.
Claims11
A vibration generating device for a small wireless machine, comprising:
- an eccentric load portion;
- two side walls extending from said eccentric load portion, each of said two side walls having
- (i) an inner surface, such that a groove having an open end and a bottom is defined between said inner surface of one of said two side walls and said inner surface of the other of said two side walls,
- (ii) an outer surface,
- (iii) an end surface interconnecting said inner surface and said outer surface and positioned at a level relative to the bottom of said groove, said end surface having a first end and a second end, and
- (iv) a caulked portion extending into said groove from a location that is between said inner surface and said outer surface, and said caulked portion being positioned at a level that is closer to the bottom of said groove than is the level at which said end surface is positioned such that defined in said end surface is a recess which opens into said groove and does not extend completely across said end surface, whereby along an intersection of said end surface and said outer surface said end surface is continuos from said first end to said second end;
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- a motor shaft positioned within said groove between said caulked portion of each of said two side walls and the bottom of said groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.