Cantilevered-shaft electric motor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9853518-B2
Application number	US-201214372642-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 6, 2012
Priority date	Jan 17, 2012
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

This cantilevered-shaft electric motor has no bearing on the load side, and since there also is no end bracket, which is present in ordinary electric motors, the internal stator and rotor are in an unprotected state in a bare state. The present invention provides a cantilevered-shaft electric motor that prevents damage to the stator and rotor during transport, causes handling properties during transport and during coupling to a load side to be favorable, and prevents contaminants from infiltrating. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor is provided with: a stator that is affixed at the inner diameter side of a housing; and a rotor that is rotatably borne disposed facing the inner peripheral side of the stator. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor has a structure such that the rotor is provided with a bearing at the reverse side from the load and the shaft at the load side is supported at an apparatus side. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor is characterized by being provided with a partition plate having a hole through which the rotary shaft penetrates at the load side of the rotor, the partition plate being provided with: a role as an affixing jig that supports the rotary shaft in a manner so that the rotor does not contact the stator during transport; and a role as a protective member that prevents the infiltration of contaminants from the outside.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cantilevered-shaft electric motor comprising:
a stator that is fixed on an inner diameter side of a housing;
a rotor that is arranged to face the inner circumference side of the stator and that is rotatably borne; and
a bearing for a rotary shaft of the rotor on the side opposed to a load, a part of the rotary shaft on the load side being structured to be supported by a device side of the load, wherein
a partition plate having a through-hole through which the rotary shaft of the rotor penetrates is provided between the bearing and a distal end of the rotary shaft, and
S 1 ≦S 2 is satisfied when a gap between the through-hole of the partition plate and the rotary shaft of the rotor is S 1 and a gap between the stator and the rotor is S 2 .

2. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the dimensions of the diameter of the through-hole and the diameter of the rotary shaft are set to satisfy S 1 ≦S 2 .

3. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the dimension of the inner diameter of the through-hole of the partition plate is set to generate a gap between the inner circumference of the stator and the outer circumference of the rotor in a state where the rotary shaft of the rotor is inclined to be brought into contact with the
inner circumference of the through-hole.

4. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor according to claim 3 ,
wherein the gap between the inner circumference of the stator and the outer circumference of the rotor is a gap nearest to the load on the outer circumference of the rotor and the inner circumference of the stator facing the rotor.

5. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor according to claim 4 ,
wherein the rotary shaft of the rotor is stored or transported in a state where the rotary shaft is inclined to be brought into contact with the inner circumference of the through-hole of the partition plate.

6. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor according to claim 5 ,
wherein a permanent magnet is mounted on the outer circumference of the rotor to face the inner circumference side of the stator, and the rotary shaft is brought into contact with the inner circumference of the through-hole of the partition plate in a state where the rotor is attracted to the stator by magnetic force.

7. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor according to claim 4 ,
wherein a permanent magnet is mounted on the outer circumference of the rotor to face the inner circumference side of the stator, and the rotary shaft is brought into contact with the inner circumference of the through-hole of the partition plate in a state where the rotor is attracted to the stator by magnetic force.

8. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor according to claim 3 ,
wherein the rotary shaft of the rotor is stored or transported in a state where the rotary shaft is inclined to be brought into contact with the inner circumference of the through-hole of the partition plate.

9. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor according to claim 8 ,
wherein a permanent magnet is mounted on the outer circumference of the rotor to face the inner circumference side of the stator, and the rotary shaft is brought into contact with the inner circumference of the through-hole of the partition plate in a state where the rotor is attracted to the stator by magnetic force.

10. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor according to claim 3 ,
wherein a permanent magnet is mounted on the outer circumference of the rotor to face the inner circumference side of the stator, and the rotary shaft is brought into contact with the inner circumference of the through-hole of the partition plate in a state where the rotor is attracted to the stator by magnetic force.

Assignees

• Hitachi Industry Equipment Systems Co Ltd

Inventors

• Miyoshi Tsutomu
• Yajima Kenji

Classifications

• H02K7/085

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

• H02K7/083

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

• H02K2201/03

  Machines characterised by aspects of the air-gap between rotor and stator · CPC title

• H02K5/10 Primary

  with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. water or fingers · CPC title

• H02K15/16

  Centring rotors within the stators · CPC title