Motor device having transmission member that is movable relative to motor side coupling part and worm gear side coupling part

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9923428-B2
Application number	US-201414650393-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2014
Priority date	Feb 28, 2013
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

Abstract

A motor device may include a motor comprising a motor shaft protruded from a motor main body; a worm gear connected with the motor shaft through a coupling; a worm wheel engaged with the worm gear; and a frame on which the motor, the worm gear and the worm wheel are mounted. The coupling may include a motor side coupling part; a transmission member; and a worm gear side coupling part. The motor side coupling part and the transmission member may be relatively movable in a first direction perpendicular to the axial line direction. The transmission member and the worm gear side coupling part may be relatively movable in a second direction perpendicular to the axial line direction and intersecting the first direction. A compression coil spring may be disposed between the transmission member and an end part of the worm gear.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A motor device comprising:
a motor comprising a motor shaft which is protruded from a motor main body;
a worm gear which is connected with the motor shaft through a coupling and is formed with a spiral groove on an outer peripheral face;
a worm wheel which is engaged with the worm gear; and
a frame on which the motor, the worm gear and the worm wheel are mounted;
wherein the coupling comprises:
a motor side coupling part provided on a motor shaft side;
a transmission member which faces the motor side coupling part on a worm gear side in an axial line direction of the worm gear; and
a worm gear side coupling part which faces the transmission member on the worm gear side in the axial line direction;

wherein the transmission member is movable with respect to the motor side coupling part along a first direction perpendicular to the axial line direction by engaging a first protruded part protruded in the axial line direction from one side with a first recessed part formed on the other side between the motor side coupling part and the transmission member;
wherein the transmission member is also movable with respect to the worm gear side coupling part along a second direction which is perpendicular to the axial line direction and is different from the first direction by engaging a second protruded part protruded in the axial line direction from one side with a second recessed part formed on the other side between the transmission member and the worm gear side coupling part;
wherein a compression coil spring structured to urge the transmission member toward the motor side coupling part is disposed between the transmission member and the worm gear;
a first spring end part on the transmission member side of the compression coil spring is abutted with an end face on a worm gear side of the transmission member; and
a second spring end part of the compression coil spring on an opposite side to the transmission member side is abutted with the worm gear.

2. The motor device according to claim 1 , wherein
the second recessed part is formed on the end face on the worm gear side of the transmission member at two positions separated in the second direction across a center of a position where the first spring end part is abutted,
the second protruded part formed in the worm gear is fitted to each of the two second recessed parts, and
the first spring end part is abutted with the transmission member so as to be across the two second recessed parts.

3. The motor device according to claim 1 , wherein the first direction and the second direction are perpendicular to each other.

4. The motor device according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission member is an elastic member.

5. The motor device according to claim 4 , wherein the motor main body is fixed to the frame through an elastic body which is interposed between the frame and the motor main body.

6. The motor device according to claim 1 , wherein
a height in the axial line direction of the second protruded part is smaller than a depth in the axial line direction of the second recessed part, and
a difference between the height in the axial line direction of the second protruded part and the depth in the axial line direction of the second recessed part is larger than a movable distance of the second protruded part in the second recessed part in a direction perpendicular to the second direction.

7. The motor device according to claim 1 , wherein a height in the axial line direction of the first protruded part is smaller than a depth in the axial line direction of the first recessed part.

Assignees

• Nidec Sankyo Corp

Inventors

• Yamaoka Mamoru
• Kasuga Takafumi
• Shingu Yuji

Classifications

• H02K7/1166 Primary

  comprising worm and worm-wheel (structural association with bearings specially adapted for worm gear drives H02K7/081) · CPC title

• F16D3/04

  specially adapted to allow radial displacement, e.g. Oldham couplings · CPC title

• H02K7/081 Primary

  specially adapted for worm gear drives (H02K7/09 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F16H55/24

  Special devices for taking up backlash · CPC title

• F16H1/16

  comprising worm and worm-wheel · CPC title