Actuator and electric beautifying device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10855154-B2
Application number	US-201716090347-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 24, 2017
Priority date	Mar 31, 2016
Publication date	Dec 1, 2020
Grant date	Dec 1, 2020

Abstract

An actuator has: an affixed section having a coil; a first mobile section that is elastically held and disposed so as to allow movement in the axial direction inside one end of the coil, and has a first magnet magnetized in the axial direction of the coil and disposed on one end in the axial direction; and a second mobile section that is elastically held and disposed so as to allow movement in the axial direction inside another end of the coil, and has a second magnet magnetized in the axial direction and disposed on the other end in the axial direction. The first and second magnets are disposed such that identical magnetic poles are in the same direction in the axial direction, and the first and second mobile sections move in opposite directions along the same axis when a current is applied to the coil.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An actuator, comprising:
a fixing section that includes a coil;
a first movable section that includes a first magnet that is magnetized in an axial direction of the coil and is disposed on a side of one end portion in an axial direction of the coil, the first movable section being disposed on an inner side of the one end portion of the coil movably in the axial direction of the coil in a state where the first movable section is elastically held; and
a second movable section that includes a second magnet that is magnetized in the axial direction of the coil and is disposed on a side of an other end portion in an axial direction of the coil, the second movable section being disposed on an inner side of the other end portion of the coil movably in the axial direction of the coil in a state where the second movable section is elastically held, wherein:
the first magnet and the second magnet are disposed such that same magnetic poles in the axial direction are in an identical direction; and
when a current flows to the coil, the first movable section and the second movable section move in opposite directions on a same axis.

2. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein:
the fixing section includes a spindle section in which the coil is inserted; and
the first movable section and the second movable section are attached to the spindle section movably in the axial direction.

3. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein:
two cores are joined to the sides of the both end portions of the coil, the two cores being formed by annular magnetic bodies along a winding direction of the coil and forming an electromagnet together with the coil; and
the two cores, and the first magnet and the second magnet form magnetic springs that elastically support the first movable section and the second movable section by a magnetic attraction force produced between the two cores, and the first magnet and the second magnet.

4. The actuator according to claim 3 , wherein:
the first movable section and the second movable section include yokes joined to both sides of magnetized surfaces of the first magnet and the second magnet; and
an outer circumferential surface of the first magnet and outer circumferential surfaces of the yokes on the both sides of the first magnet, and an outer circumferential surface of the second magnet and outer circumferential surfaces of the yokes on the both sides of the second magnet are each disposed facing inner circumferential surfaces of the two cores.

5. The actuator according to claim 4 , wherein a cutout portion formed by being cut out in the axial direction is formed on at least one of the core and the yoke facing the core.

6. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein the first movable section and the second movable section each are elastically held movably in the axial direction by biasing members.

7. The actuator according to claim 1 , further comprising an annular magnetic member disposed along an inner circumferential surface of the coil.

8. The actuator according to claim 1 , wherein the coil is driven at a substantially resonance frequency.

9. An electric beauty device comprising the actuator according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Takahashi Yuki
• Kitamura Yasutaka
• Kagami Masaharu
• Sekiguchi Chikara
• Sakaguchi Kazutaka
• Inamoto Shigenori
• Mitsumi Electric Co Ltd

Inventors

• Takahashi Yuki
• Kitamura Yasutaka
• Kagami Masaharu
• Sekiguchi Chikara
• Sakaguchi Kazutaka
• Inamoto Shigenori

Classifications

• B26B19/282

  Motors without a rotating central drive shaft, e.g. linear motors · CPC title

• B26B19/388

  Sensors; Control · CPC title

• A45D29/14

  motor-driven · CPC title

• A61C17/34

  driven by electric motor · CPC title

• H02K33/16 Primary

  with polarised armatures moving in alternate directions by reversal or energisation of a single coil system · CPC title