Electric pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9726174-B2
Application number	US-201314417323-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 26, 2013
Priority date	Jul 26, 2012
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

An electric pump including a motor unit including an end cap attached to a motor cover, and a power supply bus bar having wiring inserted therein is integral with the end cap; a pump unit including a rotor having a vane groove for receiving a vane and connecting to the rotation shaft and also including a pump plate having a cam ring; and a cover covering the pump unit from a side opposite to the motor unit and provided with a connector box surrounding an insertion recessed portion into which the power supply bus bar is inserted. The cam ring has a penetration hole through which the power supply bus bar and wiring can be inserted, the wiring being electrically connected to a connection unit provided in the insertion recessed portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric pump, comprising: a motor unit including a rotation shaft, an end cap attached to an opening portion side of a motor cover, a power supply bus bar integral with the end cap and extending toward a side away from a bottom of the motor cover, and wiring situated in the power supply bus bar and protruding from a front end of the power supply bus bar;
a pump unit connected to the motor unit, the pump unit including a rotor having a vane groove for receiving a vane and connecting to the rotation shaft, and also including a pump plate integrally provided with an external wall portion surrounding a cam ring, the cam ring having an external ring surface and an internal ring surface on which the vane slides, the external ring surface spaced from the external wall portion in a radial direction, the cam ring having a bulged portion provided by bulging the external ring surface of the cam ring radially outward, the bulged portion provided with a penetration hole through which the power supply bus bar and wiring can be inserted; and
a pump cover covering the pump unit from a side opposite to the motor unit, the pump cover provided with a connector box having a raised structure which extends towards the pump unit and aligns with the penetration hole, the raised structure surrounding an insertion recessed portion into which the power supply bus bar and wiring is inserted,
the wiring being electrically connected to a connection unit provided in the insertion recessed portion;
wherein the pump cover includes a connection cover,
an external cable is inserted into an inner space of the connection cover, and
a conductive member having one end side electrically and directly connected to the connection unit and the other end side protruding into the inner space of the connector cover is provided to an inside of the pump cover.

2. The electric pump according to claim 1 , wherein
an extension unit extends outwardly from an external wall portion of the pump cover,
the connector cover is drawn from the extension unit, and
the conductive member is provided to an inside of the extension unit.

Assignees

• Mikuni Kogyo Kk
• Kokusan Denki Co

Inventors

• Tabata Shingo
• Ihara Daiki

Classifications

• F04C15/008 Primary

  Prime movers · CPC title

• H02K5/22

  Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups H02K5/06-H02K5/20, e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes · CPC title

• F04C29/0085

  Prime movers · CPC title

• B60T13/16

  using pumps directly, i.e. without interposition of accumulators or reservoirs · CPC title

• F04C2240/40

  Electric motor · CPC title