Electric fluid pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9470237-B2
Application number	US-201414150300-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 8, 2014
Priority date	Feb 26, 2013
Publication date	Oct 18, 2016
Grant date	Oct 18, 2016

Abstract

An electric fluid pump includes: a case including a recess portion into which a fluid flows; a rotor arranged in the recess portion; an axial member supporting the rotor; and a flange member insert-molded with the case and the axial member, secured to an end portion of the axial member, and buried in a bottom wall portion of the recess portion, wherein the flange member includes: a first flange portion; a reduced portion closer to an inner surface of the bottom wall portion than the first flange portion, and smaller than the first flange portion in a radial direction; and a second flange portion closer to the inner surface than the reduced portion, larger than the first flange portion in the radial direction, and partially exposed from the inner surface, and the inner surface is flat.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electric fluid pump comprising:
a case including a recess portion into which a fluid flows;
a rotor arranged in the recess portion;
an axial member supporting the rotor, the rotor being positioned radially outward of the axial member, the axial member being a shaft that is unrotatably fixed to the case; and
a flange member insert-molded with the case and the axial member, the flange member being secured to an end portion of the axial member, the flange member being buried in a blind hole formed in a bottom wall portion of the recess portion, the flange member including:
a first flange portion;
a reduced portion disposed closer to a flat inner surface of the bottom wall portion than the first flange portion, the reduced portion being smaller than the first flange portion in a radial direction; and
a second flange portion disposed closer to the flat inner surface than the reduced portion, the second flange portion being larger than the first flange portion in the radial direction, and the second flange portion being partially exposed from the flat inner surface.

2. The electric fluid pump of claim 1 , wherein the flange member is made of metal and formed by pressing.

3. The electric fluid pump of claim 1 , wherein the second flange portion has a non-circular shape when viewed in an axial direction of the axial member.

4. An electric fluid pump comprising:
a case including a recess portion into which a fluid flows;
a rotor arranged in the recess portion; and
a shaft unrotatably fixed to the case, the shaft including an end portion buried in a blind hole formed in a bottom wall portion of the recess portion, the end portion supporting the rotor, the end portion being insert-molded with the case, the end portion including:
a first flange portion;
a reduced portion disposed closer to a flat inner surface of the bottom wall portion than the first flange portion, the reduced portion being smaller than the first flange portion in a radial direction; and
a second flange portion disposed closer to the flat inner surface than the reduced portion, the second flange portion being larger than the first flange portion in the radial direction, the second flange portion being partially exposed from the flat inner surface, wherein
the rotor is positioned radially outward of the shaft.

Assignees

• Shinano Kenshi Co

Inventors

• Maruyama Nobuchika
• Kodani Masayuki
• Miyasaka Takeshi

Classifications

• F04D13/0606 Primary

  Canned motor pumps · CPC title

• F04D13/0633

  Details of the bearings · CPC title

• F04D13/0626

  Details of the can · CPC title

• F04D25/0606 Primary

  the electric motor being specially adapted for integration in the pump · CPC title

• F04D29/043

  Shafts · CPC title