Linear vibration motor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11081950-B2
Application number	US-201916527047-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2019
Priority date	Aug 3, 2018
Publication date	Aug 3, 2021
Grant date	Aug 3, 2021

Abstract

Provided is a linear vibration motor, including: a housing having a receiving space; a vibration unit received in the receiving space; an elastic assembly configured to suspend the vibration unit in the receiving space, and a driving unit fixed to the housing and configured to drive the vibration unit to vibrate. The linear vibration motor includes a coil assembly and two first permanent magnets respectively provided at two sides of the coil assembly. The vibration unit includes one of the coil assembly and the first permanent magnets, and the driving unit includes the other one. When the vibration unit is static, a central axis of the first permanent magnet perpendicular to a vibrating direction of the vibration unit and a central axis of the coil assembly perpendicular to the vibrating direction of the vibration unit are spaced apart from each other in the vibrating direction of the vibration unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A linear vibration motor, comprising:
a housing having a receiving space;
a vibration unit received in the receiving space;
an elastic assembly configured to suspend the vibration unit in the receiving space, and
a driving unit fixed to the housing and configured to drive the vibration unit to vibrate,
wherein the linear vibration motor comprises a coil assembly and two first permanent magnets respectively provided at two sides of the coil assembly; the vibration unit comprises one of the coil assembly and the first permanent magnets, and the driving unit comprises the other one of the coil assembly and the first permanent magnets; when the vibration unit is static, a central axis of the first permanent magnet perpendicular to a vibrating direction of the vibration unit and a central axis of the coil assembly perpendicular to the vibrating direction of the vibration unit are spaced apart from each other in the vibrating direction of the vibration unit;
the driving unit comprises a coil assembly comprising an iron core and a coil wound around the iron core; the vibration unit comprises a weight having a hollow structure and the two first permanent magnets assembled in the hollow structure, and the coil assembly is inserted into the hollow structure;
the weight comprises two long walls and two short walls; the two long walls are provided opposite to each other along the vibrating direction of the vibration unit; the two short walls are respectively connected to the two long walls; the long wall and the short wall are connected to form the hollow structure; and the two first permanent magnets are respectively mounted and fixed to the two long walls and have different distances to the two short walls;
the vibration unit further comprises second permanent magnets mounted and fixed to the two short walls.

2. The linear vibration motor as described in claim 1 , wherein the vibration unit further comprises a fixing member for fixing the two first permanent magnets and the second permanent magnets, the fixing member is fixed to a surface of the weight facing towards the hollow structure, and the two first permanent magnets and the second permanent magnets are fixed to a surface of the fixing member facing away from the weight.

3. The linear vibration motor as described in claim 2 , wherein the fixing member is provided with receiving grooves, and the two first permanent magnets are respectively embedded in the receiving grooves.

4. The linear vibration motor as described in claim 1 , wherein the vibration unit further comprises two third permanent magnets respectively provided on two sides of the coil assembly that are provided with the first permanent magnets, the third permanent magnets are spaced apart from the first permanent magnets, each of the third permanent magnets is provided at an end of one of the first permanent magnet close to the central axis of the coil assembly perpendicular to the vibrating direction of the vibration unit, and each of the third permanent magnets has an opposite polarity with the first permanent magnets.

5. The linear vibration motor as described in claim 4 , wherein the third permanent magnets are embedded in the fixing member.

6. The linear vibration motor as described in claim 1 , wherein two elastic assemblies are provided, and the two elastic assemblies are respectively provided on two ends of the vibration unit in the vibrating direction of the vibration unit.

Assignees

• Aac Acoustic Tech Shenzhen Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Tao

Classifications

• H02K33/18 Primary

  with coil systems moving upon intermittent or reversed energisation thereof by interaction with a fixed field system, e.g. permanent magnets · CPC title

• H02K35/00

  Generators with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating coil system, magnet, armature or other part of the magnetic circuit (arrangements for handling mechanical energy structurally associated with generators H02K7/00, e.g. H02K7/06) · CPC title

• H02K33/16 Primary

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

• B06B1/045

  using vibrating magnet, armature or coil system · CPC title

• H02K33/14

  wherein the alternate energisation and de-energisation of the two coil systems are effected or controlled by movement of the armatures · CPC title