Linear vibration motor and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11025149-B2
Application number	US-201916412597-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 15, 2019
Priority date	May 16, 2018
Publication date	Jun 1, 2021
Grant date	Jun 1, 2021

Abstract

A linear vibration motor comprising a movable element, having an integrated magnet, and a coil wherein winding parts and are caused to cross lines of magnetic force M1 and M2 of the magnet, where the coil is near to the movable element, and wherein the movable element is caused to vibrate along an axial direction through application of power to the coil, wherein: in the magnet, the direction of magnetization is aligned with the axial direction, and the magnet has two magnet pieces and, lined up in a direction that crosses the axial direction, and that have magnetic poles in mutually opposing directions; and other magnet pieces and, having magnetic poles that are magnetized in a crossing direction, where magnetic poles are in contact with, or near to, the identical magnetic poles of the two opposing magnetic poles on the same end sides of the two magnet pieces.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A linear vibration motor comprising:
a movable element, having an integrated magnet, and two coils configured to cause to cross a line of magnetic force of the magnet, where the coils are near to the movable element, and
wherein the movable element is caused to vibrate along an axial direction through application of power to the coils,
wherein the magnet comprises:
a first magnet piece and a second magnet piece, lined up in a direction that crosses the axial direction, and that have magnetic poles in mutually opposing directions; and
a third magnet piece and a fourth magnet piece, each having a magnetic pole that is magnetized in a crossing direction, where magnetic poles are in contact with, or near to, the identical magnetic poles of the two opposing magnetic poles on the same end sides of the first and second magnet pieces, wherein the third and fourth magnet pieces are disposed on opposite sides in the axial direction of the first and second magnet pieces,
wherein the two coils have a first coil with a first winding part and a second coil with a second winding part,
wherein directions of electric current on a first side and on a second side of the first winding part are in mutually opposing directions,
wherein directions of electric current on a first side and on a second side of the second winding part are in mutually opposing directions,
wherein the first side of the first winding part and the first side of the second winding part face the third magnet piece,
wherein the second side of the first winding part and the second side of the second winding part face the fourth magnet piece,
wherein the first side and the second side of the first winding part are separated by a first through hole disposed at a center of the first coil, wherein the first through hole faces the first magnet piece, and
wherein the first side and the second side of the second winding part are separated by a second through hole disposed at a center of the second coil, wherein the second through hole faces the second magnet piece.

2. The linear vibration motor as set forth in claim 1 , wherein: the first and second coils are disposed at opposite sides of the magnet in the crossing direction, where, for these two coils, the first winding part of the first coil and the second winding part of the second coil, which face each other on both sides in the crossing direction, have electric currents that are in the same direction.

3. An electronic device comprising a linear vibration motor as set forth in claim 1 .

Assignees

• Nidec Copal Corp

Inventors

• OKAYASU Shinsuke

Classifications

• H02K33/12

  with armatures moving in alternate directions by alternate energisation of two coil systems · CPC title

• H02K33/00

  Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system (arrangements for handling mechanical energy structurally associated with motors H02K7/00, e.g. H02K7/06) · CPC title

• H02K41/0356 Primary

  moving along a straight path · CPC title

• H02K41/031

  of the permanent magnet type · CPC title

• B06B1/045

  using vibrating magnet, armature or coil system · CPC title