Brushless servo

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10069446-B2
Application number	US-201715607477-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 27, 2017
Priority date	Dec 29, 2016
Publication date	Sep 4, 2018
Grant date	Sep 4, 2018

Abstract

A brushless servo includes: a DC brushless motor having an output shaft; a reduction gearbox including a speed reduction mechanism; and a control circuit board including a number of layers of PCBs that are spaced apart from each other, and two adjacent PCBs are electrically connected to each other via a flexible circuit boards. The output shaft of the DC brushless motor is connected to the speed reduction mechanism in the reduction gearbox, and the brushless DC motor and the control circuit board are arranged side by side at one side of the reduction gearbox.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A brushless servo comprising:
a direct current (DC) brushless motor comprising an output shaft;
a reduction gearbox comprising a speed reduction mechanism; and
a control circuit board comprising a plurality of layers of printed circuit boards (PCBs) that are spaced apart from each other, and two adjacent PCBs are electrically connected to each other via a flexible circuit board;
wherein the output shaft of the DC brushless motor is connected to the speed reduction mechanism in the reduction gearbox, the DC brushless motor and the control circuit board are arranged side by side at one side of the reduction gearbox, the DC brushless motor and the reduction gearbox are arranged along a height-wise direction of the brushless servo, the DC brushless motor and the control circuit board are arranged along a length-wise direction of the brushless servo, and the plurality of layers of PCBs are arranged along the height-wise direction of the brushless servo; and
wherein a lowermost one of the plurality of layers of PCBs is located adjacent to a top of the reduction gearbox, and at least one of the plurality of layers of PCBs comprises a left end that has a shape matching and contacting a circumferential surface of the DC brushless motor.

2. The brushless servo of claim 1 , wherein an uppermost one of the plurality of layers of PCBs comprises an end located adjacent to a top of the DC brushless motor.

3. The brushless servo of claim 2 , wherein the end of the uppermost one of the plurality of layers of PCBs stays in contact with the top of the DC brushless motor, and the other PCBs each comprise a left end that has a shape matching and contacting a circumferential surface of the DC brushless motor.

4. The brushless servo of claim 1 , wherein the flexible circuit boards are located at a front end or a rear end of the control circuit board.

5. The brushless servo of claim 1 further comprising a housing, wherein a projection of each of the DC brushless motor and the control circuit board on a top of the reduction gearbox is located within a range defined by a periphery of the reduction gearbox, the housing is located on a top of the reduction gearbox, the housing and the reduction gearbox corporately define a receiving chamber, and the DC brushless motor and the control circuit board are received in the receiving chamber.

6. The brushless servo of claim 1 further comprising a housing, wherein the plurality of layers of PCBs are connected to one another via fixing posts arranged therebetween, lower ends of the fixing posts are connected to the reduction gearbox, each of the PCBs defines one or more notches at an edge thereof the housing comprises one or more protrusions engaged with the one or more notches.

7. The brushless servo of claim 6 , wherein the number of the PCBs is three, the number of the flexible circuit boards is two, the PCBs are parallel to each other, the number of the fixing posts is three, and the three fixing posts are located at vertices of a triangle.

8. A brushless servo comprising:
a direct current (DC) brushless motor comprising an output shaft;
a reduction gearbox comprising a speed reduction mechanism; and
a control circuit board comprising a plurality of layers of printed circuit boards (PCBs) that are spaced apart from each other, and two adjacent PCBs are electrically connected to each other via a flexible circuit board;
wherein the output shaft of the DC brushless motor is connected to the speed reduction mechanism in the reduction gearbox, the DC brushless motor and the control circuit board are arranged side by side at one side of the reduction gearbox, the DC brushless motor and the reduction gearbox are arranged along a height-wise direction of the brushless servo, the DC brushless motor and the control circuit board are arranged along a length-wise direction of the brushless servo, and the plurality of layers of PCBs are arranged along the height-wise direction of the brushless servo;
wherein an uppermost one of the plurality of layers of PCBs comprises an end located adjacent to a top of the DC brushless motor, and a lowermost one of the plurality of layers of PCBs is located adjacent to a top of the reduction gearbox; and
wherein the end of the uppermost one of the plurality of layers of PCBs stays in contact with the top of the DC brushless motor, and the other PCBs each comprise a left end that has a shape matching and contacting a circumferential surface of the DC brushless motor.

9. The brushless servo of claim 8 , wherein the flexible circuit boards are located at a front end or a rear end of the control circuit board.

10. The brushless servo of claim 8 further comprising a housing, wherein a projection of each of the DC brushless motor and the control circuit board on a top of the reduction gearbox is located within a range defined by a periphery of the reduction gearbox, the housing is located on a top of the reduction gearbox, the housing and the reduction gearbox corporately define a receiving chamber, and the DC brushless motor and the control circuit board are received in the receiving chamber.

11. The brushless servo of claim 8 further comprising a housing, wherein the plurality of layers of PCBs are connected to one another via fixing posts arranged therebetween, lower ends of the fixing posts are connected to the reduction gearbox, each of the PCBs defines one or more notches at an edge thereof, the housing comprises one or more protrusions engaged with the one or more notches.

12. The brushless servo of claim 11 , wherein the number of the PCBs is three, the number of the flexible circuit boards is two, the PCBs are parallel to each other, the number of the fixing posts is three, and the three fixing posts are located at vertices of a triangle.

Assignees

• Ubtech Robotics Corp

Inventors

• Li Youpeng
• Xiong Youjun

Classifications

• H05K1/0213

  Electrical arrangements not otherwise provided for · CPC title

• H02P7/00

  Arrangements for regulating or controlling the speed or torque of electric DC motors · CPC title

• H05K1/148

  Arrangements of two or more hingeably connected rigid printed circuit boards, i.e. connected by flexible means · CPC title

• H02K29/06 Primary

  with position sensing devices (H02K29/03 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02P6/08 Primary

  Arrangements for controlling the speed or torque of a single motor (H02P6/10, H02P6/28 take precedence) · CPC title