Gear motor including reduction mechanism

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9689466-B2
Application number	US-201615042597-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 12, 2016
Priority date	Aug 23, 2013
Publication date	Jun 27, 2017
Grant date	Jun 27, 2017

Abstract

The present invention provides a reduction mechanism in which high torque output can he achieved, thinness and size and weight reduction can be achieved, and the number of teeth of a gear and reduction ratio can be freely set. In a gear motor that includes a reduction mechanism in which a planetary two-stage gear is arrayed between a sun gear of a planetary gear mechanism and an internal gear of a planetary gear mechanism, the reduction mechanism has at least a single planetary two-stage gear arrayed such as to be positioned between the sun gear and the internal gear and including a small gear or a large gear that meshes together with a large gear or a small gear of the planetary two-stage gear, and both end portions of the at least a single planetary two-stage gear are supported by ball bearings.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A gear motor comprising a reduction mechanism, said reduction mechanism comprising:
a planetary gear mechanism which comprises a sun gear and an internal gear,
a first planetary two-stage gear arrayed so as to be positioned between the sun gear and the internal gear, said first planetary two-stage gear comprising a small gear and a large gear,
a second planetary two-stage gear comprising a small and a large gear,
wherein the small gear or the large gear of the first planetary two-stage gear meshes together with the large gear or the small gear of the second planetary two-stage gear, and
a ratio of the number of teeth of the large gear to the number of teeth of the small gear of the first planetary two-stage gear is an integral multiple, and
both end portions of the first planetary two-stage gear are supported by ball bearings and
a ratio of the number of teeth of the large gear to the number of teeth of the small gear of the second planetary two-stage gear is not an integral multiple.

2. The gear motor according to claim 1 , wherein:
a gear ratio of the large gear and the small gear of only one of the first and the second planetary two-stage gear is not an integral multiple.

3. The gear motor according to claim 2 , wherein:
the first planetary two-stage gear is arrayed in a horizontal direction such that a positional relationship of the small gear or the large gear of said first planetary two-stage gear that meshes together with the large gear or the small gear of the second planetary two-stage gear is reversed upside down.

4. The gear motor according to claim 3 , wherein:
modules of the large gear and the small gear of the first planetary two-stage gear are set to differing values.

5. The gear motor according to claim 2 , wherein:
modules of the large gear and the small gear of the first planetary two-stage gear are set to differing values.

6. The gear motor according to claim 1 , wherein:
the first planetary two-stage gear is arrayed in a horizontal direction such that a positional relationship of the small gear or the large gear of said first planetary two-stage gear that meshes together with the large gear or the small gear of the second planetary two-stags gear is reversed upside down.

7. The gear motor according to claim 6 , wherein:
modules of the large gear and the small gear of the first planetary two-stage gear are set to differing values.

8. A gear motor comprising a reduction mechanism, said reduction mechanism comprising:
a planetary gear mechanism which comprises a sun gear and an internal gear,
a first planetary two-stage gear arrayed so as to be positioned between the sun gear and the internal gear, said first planetary two-stage gear comprising a small gear and a large gear,
a second planetary two-stage gear comprising a small and a large gear,
wherein the small gear or the large gear of the first planetary two-stage gear meshes together with the large gear or the small gear of the second planetary two-stage gear, and
a ratio of the number of teeth of the large gear to the number of teeth of the small gear of at least one of the first and the second planetary two-stage gear is an integral multiple, and
both end portions of the first planetary two-stage gear are supported by ball bearings, and
modules of the large gear and the small gear of the first planetary two-stage gear are set to differing values.

Assignees

• Nidec Copal Electronics Corp

Inventors

• Kanai Takashi
• Tanaka Yusuke
• Matsushita Hiroki
• Endo Takayuki

Classifications

• F16H1/36 Primary

  with two central gears coupled by intermeshing orbital gears · CPC title

• H02K7/116

  with gears · CPC title

• F16H1/28

  with gears having orbital motion · CPC title