US 7,557,484 B2Granted

Electric motor

AssigneeMitsuba Corporation

InventorsYoshichika Kawashima, Shunji Kumagai

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Abstract

In an electric motor having high-speed and low-speed brushes, durability is improved and vibration/noise is reduced. The electric motor has a low-speed brush 21a, a high-speed brush 21b, and a common brush 21c. Formed in the electric motor are a first coil 7A1 which is wound between given slots 11, and a second coil 7A2 which is wound in a direction opposite to a direction of the first coil 7A1 between slots 11 existing at positions point-symmetric to the given slots 11 with respect to a center of a rotation shaft. An armature coil 7 is formed by the first and second coils 7A1 and 7A2. If the armature coil 7 is short-circuited by the high-speed brush 21b, the first coil 7A1 and the second coil 7A2 of the short-circuited armature coil 7 exist at positions symmetric to each other with respect to an axis line extending through the center of the high-speed brush 21b and the center of the rotation shaft.

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Dependent claims

An electric motor comprising:

a motor housing having an inner circumferential face and paired permanent magnets fixed to the inner circumferential face;
an armature core attached to a rotation shaft, having an even number of teeth radially extending in radial directions, and an even number of slots formed between teeth and extending along an axis direction;
a commutator on the rotation shaft and being adjacent to the armature core, and having commutator members arranged in a circumferential direction, the commutator members being equal in number to the slots;
a first brush which slides on the commutator members of the commutator;
a second brush provided apart from the first brush by a predetermined angle in a circumferential direction, and configured to slide on the commutator members of the commutator;
a third brush, provided at a position opposed to the first brush, configured to slide on the commutator members of the commutator such that a current is alternatively supplied between the first brush and the third brush or between the second brush and the third brush, wherein when the current is supplied between the first brush and the third brush, the armature core rotates at a lower rotation speed than a rotation speed of the armature core when the current is supplied between the second brush and the third brush;
and
an armature coil electrically connected between adjacent ones of the commutator members, said armature coil having a first coil wound between the slots and a surrounding plurality of teeth, and a second coil, wound between the slots and another plurality of teeth located at positions point-symmetric to the teeth around which the first coil is wound with respect to a center of the rotation shaft;
wherein the second coil surrounds the same number of teeth as the first coil and is wound in a direction opposite to a direction in which the first coil is wound, and the first and second coils are wound by an equal number of turns and are connected in series with each other.

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An electric motor comprising:

a motor housing having an inner circumferential face and paired permanent magnets fixed to the inner circumferential face;
an armature core attached to a rotation shaft, having an even number of teeth radially extending in radial directions, and an even number of slots formed between teeth and extending along an axis direction;
a commutator on the rotation shaft and being adjacent to the armature core, and having commutator members arranged in a circumferential direction, the commutator members being equal in number to the slots;
a first brush which slides on the commutator members of the commutator;
a second brush provided apart from the first brush by a predetermined angle in a circumferential direction, and configured to slide on the commutator members of the commutator;
a third brush, provided at a position opposed to the first brush, configured to slide on the commutator members of the commutator such that a current is selectively supplied between the first brush and the third brush or between the second brush and the third brush, wherein when the current is supplied between the first brush and the third brush, the armature core rotates at a lower rotation speed than a rotation speed of the armature core when the current is supplied between the second brush and the third brush;
and
an armature coil electrically connected between adjacent ones of the commutator members, said armature coil having a first coil wound between the slots and a surrounding plurality of teeth, and a second coil, wound between the slots and another plurality of teeth located at positions point-symmetric to the teeth around which the first coil is wound with respect to a center of the rotation shaft;
wherein the second coil surrounds the same number of teeth as the first coil and is wound in a direction opposite to a direction in which the first coil is wound, and the first and second coils are wound by an equal number of turns and are connected in series with each other.

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