Motor unit, motor with speed reduction mechanism, and sliding door automatic opening/closing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9957746-B2
Application number	US-201515109838-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 26, 2015
Priority date	Jan 28, 2014
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 2018

Abstract

Disclosed is a motor unit including: an electric motor; a motor housing ( 6 ) configured to accommodate the electric motor; and a control substrate ( 70 ) including a sensor element ( 72 S) to detect a position of an inner rotor of the electric motor in a rotational direction. The motor housing ( 6 ) includes a substrate accommodating portion ( 80 ) configured to accommodate at least a portion of the control substrate ( 70 ); a positioning portion ( 81 ) that is formed in the substrate accommodating portion ( 80 ), and positions the control substrate ( 70 ); and a screw configured to fix a stator of the electric motor to the positioning portion ( 81 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A motor unit comprising:
an electric motor;
a housing configured to accommodate the electric motor; and
a control substrate including a sensor that detects a position of a rotor of the electric motor in a rotational direction,
wherein the housing includes a substrate accommodating portion configured to accommodate at least a portion of the control substrate; a positioning portion that is formed in the substrate accommodating portion, and positions the control substrate; and a fixing member configured to fix a stator of the electric motor to the positioning portion,
wherein the control substrate is inserted into and removed from the substrate accommodating portion in a direction along a surface of the control substrate,
wherein the positioning portion is formed to extend along an insertion and removal direction of the control substrate, and
wherein the control substrate includes a slit into which the positioning portion can be inserted along the insertion and removal direction.

2. A motor with a speed reduction mechanism comprising:
a motor unit comprising;
an electric motor;
a housing configured to accommodate the electric motor; and
a control substrate including a sensor that detects a position of a rotor of the electric motor in a rotational direction,
wherein the housing includes a substrate accommodating portion configured to accommodate at least a portion of the control substrate; a positioning portion that is formed in the substrate accommodating portion, and positions the control substrate; and a fixing member configured to fix a stator of the electric motor to the positioning portion; and

a planetary gear mechanism including an annular outer ring gear fixed to the housing; a sun gear that is disposed at the center of the outer ring gear in a radial direction, and is fixed to a rotational shaft of the electric motor; multiple planetary gears which are disposed between the outer ring gear and the sun gear so as to mesh with the outer ring gear and the sun gear, and are formed to be capable of revolving around the sun gear as a center; and a planetary carrier that is connected to the multiple planetary gears, and is integrally connected to a drum,
wherein the positioning portion is provided to overlap at least a portion of the outer ring gear when viewed in a direction along the central axis of the rotational shaft.

3. A sliding door automatic opening/closing device comprising:
the motor with a speed reduction mechanism according to claim 2 ;
the drum mounted on an output shaft of the motor with the speed reduction mechanism; and
an opening cable and a closing cable, one end of each of which is connected to either a vehicle body or a sliding door,
wherein the motor with the speed reduction mechanism automatically opens and closes the sliding door by operating the opening cable and the closing cable.

Assignees

• Mitsuba Corp

Inventors

• Kaihatsu Akihiro
• Ishikawa Masazumi

Classifications

• E05Y2900/531

  Doors · CPC title

• E05F15/643 Primary

  operated by flexible elongated pulling elements, e.g. belts, chains or cables (by flexible elongated push-pull mechanisms E05F15/635) · CPC title

• H02K29/06

  with position sensing devices (H02K29/03 takes precedence) · CPC title

• E05D15/0621

  Details, e.g. suspension or supporting guides (E05D15/0604, E05D15/08 - E05D15/14 take precedence) · CPC title

• H02K11/21

  Devices for sensing speed or position, or actuated thereby (specially adapted for machines having non-mechanical commutating devices H02K29/06, H02K29/14) · CPC title