Abstract:
A rotor includes a rotor core including laminated thin plate cores. A single thin plate core includes an inner plate portion defining a portion of an inner core portion and outer plate portions defining a portion of an outer core portion. At least some of the laminated thin plate cores include a connecting portion. A number of connecting portion is one or a plurality, and, when the number of connecting portions is a plurality, the connecting portions at positions other than both left and right sides of each other in a circumferential direction, and, in plan view, the thin plate core includes the connecting portion at a position different from that of a connecting portion in another thin plate core adjacent in an axial direction.
Abstract:
A case includes a cylindrical housing arranged to hold a stator, and having an opening portion at a top thereof; and a motor cover fitted to an upper side of the housing, and arranged to cover an upper side of the stator. A busbar unit includes a sensor busbar electrically connected to a rotation sensor, and a busbar holder arranged at the opening portion to hold the sensor busbar. The case includes a case through hole arranged to open into a space outside of the case. The busbar holder includes a cylindrical holder body portion having at least a portion thereof arranged radially inside of the opening portion; and a protruding portion arranged to protrude out of the case, and having at least a portion thereof arranged in the case through hole. A gap is defined circumferentially between the protruding portion and an edge of the case through hole.
Abstract:
A stator includes core pieces in which at least first and second laminate members are laminated, the first laminate member includes a first tooth portion and a first core back portion, the second laminate member includes a second tooth portion and a second core back portion, positions of both circumferential ends of the first core back portion are different from positions of both circumferential ends of the second core back portion, the first core back portion and the second core back portion have an inclined or curved shape at a lower side of one side thereof in the circumferential direction or the other side thereof in the circumferential direction which overlaps the core piece adjacent thereto, and the inclined or curved shape of the first core back portion and the second core back portion is at a portion protruding in the circumferential direction with respect to the second core back portion and the first core back portion in a plan view.
Abstract:
A manufacturing method comprising: a process S1 of forming a plate member which has a substantially annular scrap portion having a center hole through an axial direction and a core plate portion defining a portion of the core pieces arranged continuously with the scrap portion on a radially inner side of the scrap portion; a process S2 of forming a laminated body, which has the core pieces, by laminating the plate member; a process S3 of providing the laminated body and the shaft in a mold; a process S4 of forming a molding body by inserting a molten resin or a nonmagnetic material in the mold and forming the filling portion of which at least a portion is located between the core pieces; and a process S5 of separating the scrap portion and the core plate portion.
Abstract:
A busbar unit includes: three-phase busbars connected to three-phase coils; and three-phase external terminals that are members different from the three-phase busbars, the three-phase external terminals being connected to the three-phase busbars and electrically connected to a power supply source. Each of the three-phase external terminals includes: a terminal body portion; a busbar-side connection portion connected to a busbar of one phase from among the three-phase busbars; and a power-supply-source-side connection portion electrically connected to the power supply source. At least two terminals among the three-phase external terminals are different in length of a conduction path through which a current flows between the busbar-side connection portion and the power-supply-source-side connection portion in the terminal body portion.
Abstract:
A motor includes a magnet rotating together with a rotor about a central axis, a substrate on which a sensor to detect a position of the magnet is installed, a housing to hold a stator to drive the rotor, a bearing assembly including a bearing holder, and a conductor assembly between the housing and the bearing assembly. The conductor assembly includes a conductor including a first conductor electrically connected to the sensor through the substrate and a conductor holder covering the conductor. The substrate is fixed to the conductor holder. In the radial direction, a gap is located between an outer side surface of the bearing holder and an inner side surface of the conductor holder, and at least a portion of the magnet is located in the gap.
Abstract:
A motor includes a rotor including a shaft centered on a vertically extending center axis, a stator radially opposite to the rotor and including coils, a bearing supporting the shaft, and a bus bar unit on an upper side in an axial direction of the stator. The bus bar unit includes bus bars including a terminal portion connected to a lead wire drawn out from the coil and a bus bar holder holding the bus bars. The terminal portion includes a slit which extends axially downward and into which the lead wire is fitted. The width of the slit is narrower than the diameter of the lead wire.
Abstract:
A stator includes conductive wires wound around teeth, and slots between adjacent teeth in a circumferential direction. The conductive wires include conductive wires of three phases corresponding to a U-phase, a V-phase, and a W-phase, and the conductive wires are delta connected. Coils, in which any one of the conductive wires is wound around the teeth, are repeatedly disposed in order of the U-phase, the V-phase, and the W-phase in the circumferential direction. In each of the U-phase, the V-phase, and the W-phase, at least two coils are connected in series and adjacent in the circumferential direction. A direction in which the U-phase and W-phase conductive wires are wound around the teeth and a direction in which the V-phase conductive wire is wound around the tooth are opposite.
Abstract:
A motor, a reduction gear, a differential gear, and a housing having a cylindrical shape are included. The motor has a rotor and a stator. The rotor rotates around a motor axis. The stator faces the rotor in a radial direction with a gap interposed between them. The reduction gear includes a planetary gear mechanism, and can increase rotational power output from the motor according to a reduction ratio. The differential gear distributes and outputs the rotational power from the reduction gear. The housing houses the motor, the reduction gear, and the differential gear arranged in an axial direction with the motor axis as a common rotation axis. The housing includes a first attachment portion and a second attachment portion arranged on an outer peripheral surface. The first attachment portion and the second attachment portion are arranged on the opposite sides in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction with respect to the motor axis.
Abstract:
A stator includes a stator core disposed about a central axis and covered by an insulator, coils installed on the stator core through the insulator, and an intermediate bus bar electrically connected to a portion of a conducting wire constituting the coils. A method of manufacturing a stator includes a mounting process, a winding process, and a connecting process. An intermediate bus bar is supported at a first position spaced apart from a coil in an axial direction in a mounting portion before the start of the winding process. The intermediate bus bar is fixed at a second position between the first position and the coils in the axial direction after the completion of the winding process.