Motor assembly

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12341394-B2
Application number	US-202217942467-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 12, 2022
Priority date	Sep 28, 2021
Publication date	Jun 24, 2025
Grant date	Jun 24, 2025

Abstract

A motor assembly includes a stator including a stator core, a stator coil, and an insulator, and a rotor. The stator core includes a yoke, a plurality of teeth, and a shoe. The insulator includes an insulator body wrapping and insulating an outer surface of the shoe so that an inner end of the shoe is exposed to outside, and a creepage distance extension portion extending a creepage distance between the stator coil and the inner end of the shoe. The creepage distance extension portion includes an inner extension section extending from the end of the shoe along the circumferential direction, and an outer extension section extending outwardly from the inner extension section. Accordingly, the creepage distances between the stator coil and the stator core in the circumferential direction and the radial direction may be increased, respectively, without increasing the size of the stator in the radial direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor assembly comprising:
a stator including a stator core, a stator coil wound around the stator core, and an insulator insulating the stator core and the stator coil; and
a rotor rotatably provided with respect to the stator,
wherein the stator core includes:
a yoke;
a plurality of teeth protruding from the yoke along a radial direction; and
shoes extending, respectively, from ends of the plurality of teeth, each of the shoes extending from a corresponding one of the plurality teeth to both sides along a circumferential direction,

wherein the insulator includes:
an insulator body surrounding and insulating an inner surface of the yoke and a circumferential surface of the teeth, and surrounding and insulating an outer surface of the shoe so that an inner end of the shoe is exposed; and
an insulator extension configured to extend a creepage distance between the stator coil and the inner end of the shoe,

wherein the insulator extension includes:
an inner extension section extending in the circumferential direction from an end of one of the shoes along the circumferential direction; and
an outer extension section extending outwardly from the inner extension section,

wherein the inner extension section includes:
a first section extending in the circumferential direction from the inner end of the shoe;
a second section bent from the first section and extending in the radial direction; and
a third section bent from the second section and extending in the circumferential direction, and

wherein a guide surface is provided at both ends of the insulator extension along an axial direction, the guide surface having an axial length that is decreased outwardly along the radial direction.

2. The motor assembly of claim 1 , wherein the outer extension section includes:
a radial extension section extending in the radial direction from the inner extension section; and
a circumferential extension section extending in the circumferential direction from the radial extension section.

3. The motor assembly of claim 1 , wherein the insulator body includes:
a yoke insulating portion insulating an inner surface of the yoke;
a teeth insulating portion insulating a circumferential surface of the teeth; and
a shoe insulating portion insulating an outer surface of the shoes,
wherein the yoke insulating portion and the shoe insulating portion each include a guide extending to both sides compared to the teeth insulating portion along an axial direction.

4. The motor assembly of claim 3 , wherein the insulator is injection-molded around the stator core.

5. The motor assembly of claim 4 , wherein the inner extension section has an inner diameter that is extended compared to an inner diameter of the shoe so that the end of the shoe protrudes by a preset length.

6. The motor assembly of claim 4 , wherein
the yoke insulating portion includes a protrusion having an outer diameter that is extended compared to an outer diameter of the yoke, and
the protrusion includes a plurality of cutout portions cut to have a minimum outer diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the yoke.

7. The motor assembly of claim 6 , wherein a shape of one of the plurality of cutout portions is different from a shape of other ones of the plurality of cutout portions.

8. The motor assembly of claim 1 , wherein the guide surface has an outwardly convex arc cross-section.

9. The motor assembly of claim 1 , wherein the guide surface has an outwardly inclined linear cross-section.

10. The motor assembly of claim 1 , wherein the insulator includes a connection pin coupling portion to which an end of a connection pin having another end connected to a printed circuit board (PCB) is coupled.

11. The motor assembly of claim 10 , wherein
an end of a wire of the stator coil is electrically connected to the connection pin, and
the insulator includes a guide protrusion guiding the wire.

12. The motor assembly of claim 10 , wherein
the plurality of teeth are configured as three teeth,
the stator coil includes three phase coils respectively wound on the plurality of teeth, and the three phase coils are connected to a three-phase power supply unit of the PCB.

13. The motor assembly of claim 1 ,
wherein the insulator body includes:
a yoke insulating portion insulating an inner surface of the yoke;
a teeth insulating portion insulating a circumferential surface of the teeth; and
a shoe insulating portion insulating an outer surface of the shoes, and

wherein the outer extension section has an outer surface extending in a direction perpendicular to the radial direction from the shoe insulating portion.

14. The motor assembly of claim 13 , wherein an end of the inner extension section and an end of the outer extension section are collinear.

15. The motor assembly of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the inner extension section or the outer extension section includes a curved section.

16. The motor assembly of claim 1 , wherein a boundary region of the inner extension section and the outer extension section is a curved section having a curved cross-sectional shape.

17. The motor assembly of claim 1 , wherein:
the rotor includes a rotating shaft and a magnet coupled to the rotating shaft,
an impeller is coupled to the rotating shaft,
an outer housing is provided outside the impeller,
an inner housing is concentrically provided inside the outer housing, and
the stator is inserted by a preset depth into one end of the inner housing along the axial direction.

18. The motor assembly of claim 17 , wherein the inner housing includes a bearing assembly rotatably supporting the rotating shaft.

19. A motor assembly comprising:
a stator including a stator core, a stator coil wound around the stator core, and an insulator insulating the stator core and the stator coil; and
a rotor rotatably provided with respect to the stator,
wherein the insulator includes:
an insulator body surrounding and insulating a shoe of the stator core; and
an insulator extension configured to extend a creepage distance from the stator coil,

wherein the insulator extension includes:
an inner extension section extending in the circumferential direction from the shoe of the stator core along a circumferential direction; and
an outer extension section extending outwardly from the inner extension section,

wherein the outer extension section includes:
a radial extension section extending in a radial direction from the inner extension section; and
a circumferential extension section extending in the circumferential direction from the radial extension section,

wherein the inner extension section includes:
a first section extending in the circumferential direction from the inner end of the shoe;
a second section bent from the first section and extending in the radial direction; and
a third section bent from the second section and extending in the circumferential direction, and

wherein a guide surface is provided at both ends of the insulator extension along an axial direction, the guide surface having an axial length that is decreased outwardly along the radial direction.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kim Sunghyun
• Seo Seonghun
• Kim Honghyun
• Jung Hwajung

Classifications

• H02K2203/12

  Machines characterised by the bobbins for supporting the windings · CPC title

• H02K2203/03

  Machines characterised by the wiring boards, i.e. printed circuit boards or similar structures for connecting the winding terminations · CPC title

• H02K9/06

  with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft · CPC title

• H02K7/085

  radially supporting the rotary shaft at only one end of the rotor (H02K7/086, H02K7/09 take precedence) · CPC title

• H02K2211/03

  Machines characterised by circuit boards, e.g. pcb · CPC title