Vibration motor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016141935-A1
Application number	US-201514945604-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 19, 2015
Priority date	Nov 19, 2014
Publication date	May 19, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A vibration motor, comprising a base part which expands perpendicular to a vertical center axis; a shaft which protrudes upward along the center axis, a lower end of the shaft being coupled to the base part; a circuit board disposed on the base part; coil parts which are attached onto the circuit board, and face each other in a radial direction across the shaft and a gap; a bearing part which is rotatably attached to the shaft at an upper side than the coil parts; a rotor holder which is attached to the bearing part; a magnet part which is attached to the rotor holder; an eccentric weight which is attached to the rotor holder; a spacer which is attached to the shaft at a portion between the bearing part and the coil part, a top surface of the spacer being in contact with a bottom surface of the bearing part; and a cover part which covers at least a portion of the upper and lateral sides of the rotor holder and the eccentric weight, and is fixed to an upper end portion of the shaft and an edge portion of the base part, wherein a bottom surface of the spacer vertically faces a top surface of the coil part.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A vibration motor, comprising:
a base part which expands perpendicular to a vertical center axis; a shaft which protrudes upward along the center axis, a lower end of the shaft being fixed to the base part; a circuit board disposed on the base part; coil parts which are attached onto the circuit board, and face each other in a radial direction across the shaft and a gap; a bearing part which is rotatably attached to the shaft at an upper side than the coil part; a rotor holder which is attached to the bearing part; a magnet part which is attached to the rotor holder; an eccentric weight which is attached to the rotor holder; a spacer which is attached to the shaft at a portion between the bearing part and the coil part, a top surface of the spacer being in contact with a bottom surface of the bearing part; and a cover part which covers at least a portion of the upper and lateral sides of the rotor holder and the eccentric weight, and is fixed to an upper end portion of the shaft and an edge portion of the base part, wherein a bottom surface of the spacer faces a top surface of the coil part in a vertical direction.

2 . The vibration motor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the bottom surface of the spacer is in contact with the top surface of the coil part.

3 . The vibration motor according to claim 2 ,
wherein the spacer is disposed at a radially inner side of the magnet part.

4 . The vibration motor according to claim 2 ,
wherein the spacer is attached to the shaft by press-fitting.

5 . The vibration motor of claim 4 ,
further comprising a spacer support which protrudes downward from the bottom surface of the spacer, and is in contact with the circuit board or the base part.

6 . The vibration motor according to claim 2 ,
wherein an outer edge of the top surface of the spacer overlaps with an outer edge of the bottom surface of the bearing part over the entire circumference, or is disposed at a radially outer side than the outer edge of the bottom surface of the bearing part.

7 . The vibration motor according to claim 4 ,
wherein an outer edge of the top surface of the spacer overlaps with an outer edge of the bottom surface of the bearing part over the entire circumference, or is disposed at a radially outer side than the outer edge of the bottom surface of the bearing part.

8 . The vibration motor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the coil part includes a plurality of coils which are disposed around the shaft, and when viewed in a top view, each coil surrounds an axis parallel to the shaft, and has a ring shape with the shaft disposed at an outer side; the entire inner circumferential edge of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially outer side than the outer edge of the bottom surface of the spacer; and a portion of the outer circumference of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially inner side than the outer edge of the spacer.

9 . The vibration motor of claim 1 ,
wherein the coil part includes a plurality of coils which are disposed around the shaft, and when viewed in a top view, each coil surrounds an axis parallel to the shaft, and has a ring shape with the shaft disposed at an outer side; the entire inner circumferential edge of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially inner side than the outer edge of the bottom surface of the spacer; and a portion of the outer circumference of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially outer side than the outer edge of the spacer.

10 . The vibration motor of claim 2 ,
wherein the coil part includes a plurality of coils which are disposed around the shaft, and when viewed in a top view, each coil surrounds an axis parallel to the shaft, and has a ring shape with the shaft disposed at an outer side; the entire inner circumferential edge of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially outer side than the outer edge of the bottom surface of the spacer; and a portion of the outer circumference of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially inner side than the outer edge of the spacer.

11 . The vibration motor of claim 2 ,
wherein the coil part includes a plurality of coils which are disposed around the shaft, and when viewed in a top view, each coil surrounds an axis parallel to the shaft, and has a ring shape with the shaft disposed at an outer side; the entire inner circumferential edge of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially inner side than the outer edge of the bottom surface of the spacer; and a portion of the outer circumference of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially outer side than the outer edge of the spacer.

12 . The vibration motor of claim 4 ,
wherein the coil part includes a plurality of coils which are disposed around the shaft, and when viewed in a top view, each coil surrounds an axis parallel to the shaft, and has a ring shape with the shaft disposed at an outer side; the entire inner circumferential edge of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially outer side than the outer edge of the bottom surface of the spacer; and a portion of the outer circumference of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially inner side than the outer edge of the spacer.

13 . The vibration motor of claim 4 ,
wherein the coil part includes a plurality of coils which are disposed around the shaft, and when viewed in a top view, each coil surrounds an axis parallel to the shaft, and has a ring shape with the shaft disposed at an outer side; the entire inner circumferential edge of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially inner side than the outer edge of the bottom surface of the spacer; and a portion of the outer circumference of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially outer side than the outer edge of the spacer.

14 . The vibration motor of claim 7 ,
wherein the coil part includes a plurality of coils which are disposed around the shaft, and when viewed in a top view, each coil surrounds an axis parallel to the shaft, and has a ring shape with the shaft disposed at an outer side; the entire inner circumferential edge of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially outer side than the outer edge of the bottom surface of the spacer; and a portion of the outer circumference of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially inner side than the outer edge of the spacer.

15 . The vibration motor of claim 7 ,
wherein the coil part includes a plurality of coils which are disposed around the shaft, and when viewed in a top view, each coil surrounds an axis parallel to the shaft, and has a ring shape with the shaft disposed at an outer side; the entire inner circumferential edge of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially inner side than the outer edge of the bottom surface of the spacer; and a portion of the outer circumference of the top surface of each coil is disposed at a radially outer side than the outer edge of the spacer.

16 . The vibration motor of claim 7 ,
wherein the spacer has an annular shape.

17 . The vibration motor of claim 7 ,
wherein a portion of the eccentric weight is disposed between the coil part and the cover part at a radially outer side than the coil part.

Assignees

• Nidec Seimitsu Corp

Inventors

• Takagi Daisuke
• Kanai Naoki

Classifications

• H02K7/061

  using rotary unbalanced masses (for generating mechanical vibrations in general B06B1/16) · CPC title

• H02K7/085 Primary

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

• H02K3/28

  Layout of windings or of connections between windings (windings for pole-changing H02K17/06, H02K17/14, H02K19/12, H02K19/32) · CPC title

• H02K7/063 Primary

  integrally combined with motor parts, e.g. motors with eccentric rotors · CPC title