Motor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9553490-B2
Application number	US-201414548444-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 20, 2014
Priority date	Dec 12, 2013
Publication date	Jan 24, 2017
Grant date	Jan 24, 2017

Abstract

A motor includes a rotary and a stationary portion. The rotary portion includes a shaft, a rotor holder, and a rotor magnet. The stationary portion includes a bearing member, a housing, a stator, a circuit board directly or indirectly held in the housing, positioned axially below the rotor holder, and a circuit board support portion provided together with the housing as a monolithic member or directly or indirectly held in the housing, directly or indirectly attached to a device body. The circuit board includes first and second circuit boards positioned respectively axially above and below the circuit board support portion. The first and second circuit boards are electrically connected via a connecting member, and partially overlap. An attachment portion attaching the motor to a device is positioned on an outer peripheral surface of the circuit board support portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor, comprising:
a rotary portion configured to rotate about a center axis extending in an up-down direction; and
a stationary portion configured to support the rotary portion; wherein
the rotary portion includes a shaft extending along the center axis, a rotor holder configured to rotate together with the shaft, and a rotor magnet held in the rotor holder,
the stationary portion includes a bearing member configured to rotatably support the shaft, a housing configured to hold the bearing member, a stator held in the housing and radially opposed to the rotor magnet, a circuit board directly or indirectly held in the housing, positioned axially below the rotor holder and electrically connected to the stator, and a circuit board support portion defined together with the housing as a single monolithic member or directly or indirectly held in the housing, directly or indirectly attached to a device body and configured to axially support the circuit board;
the circuit board includes a first circuit board positioned axially above the circuit board support portion and a second circuit board positioned axially below the circuit board support portion;
the first circuit board and the second circuit board are electrically connected to each other via a connecting member;
the first circuit board and the second circuit board at least partially overlap with each other in an axial direction;
an attachment portion configured to attach the motor to a device is positioned on an outer peripheral surface of the circuit board support portion; and
the attachment portion includes two or more attachment portions distributed along a circumferential direction evenly or substantially evenly, and the attachment portion is provided directly axially between the first circuit board and the second circuit board.

2. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the attachment portion includes a recess portion depressed radially inward from the outer peripheral surface of the circuit board support portion.

3. The motor of claim 2 , wherein a fixing member is inserted into the attachment portion from a radial outer side such that the motor is fixed to the device body.

4. The motor of claim 1 , wherein an electronic part is mounted to an axial lower surface of the second circuit board.

5. The motor of claim 4 , wherein the electronic part is a control integrated circuit.

6. The motor of claim 1 , wherein a rotation position detecting member is mounted to an axial upper surface of the first circuit board.

7. The motor of claim 1 , wherein an electronic part is attached to the circuit board and is disposed in a space between the first circuit board and the second circuit board.

8. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the circuit board support portion is made of a resin.

9. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the circuit board support portion has a disc shape.

10. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the rotor magnet is fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the rotor holder and the stator is opposed to an inner circumferential surface of the rotor magnet.

11. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the second circuit board partially overlaps with the shaft in the axial direction.

12. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the shaft protrudes axially upward from a top end of the rotor holder.

Assignees

• Nidec Corp

Inventors

• Zhang Tiecheng
• Li Peng
• Zhang Dongxu
• Sun Yingping

Classifications

• H02K5/163 Primary

  radially supporting the rotary shaft at only one end of the rotor (H02K5/165, H02K5/167, H02K5/173 take precedence) · CPC title

• H02K11/33

  Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics (H02K11/38 takes precedence) · CPC title