Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Adolf Lindner

Richard Werner

Peter Adam

Rudolf Weppler

Ewald Wehner

Werner Schilling

Klaus-Dieter Voigt

This invention develops an automated procedure which permits the settling of the axial play of a rotor using a stator sleeve pressed onto the rotor shaft and held in place during assembly by an insulating end disc which mates at an end face with the laminated rotor core, whereby assuring the smallest number of assembly steps. According to this invention, the insulating end disc is injection-moulded in one piece along with the spacer sleeve with an intermediate weak rated point in the form of either elastic or break-away intermediate segments which permit a relative setting motion between the insulating end disc which contacts the end face of the laminated rotor core, and the spacer sleeve pressed on the rotor shaft. This invention is particularly suitable for small commutator motors with rotor shafts mounted in sleeve bearings.

Device and procedure to adjust the axial play between the rotor and the

A thermally released switching mechanism which in a simple fashion and at a precisely defined switching point clearly interrupts the current to the motor when a preset, highest admissible temperature is exceeded, at least until the actual temperature has once against fallen below the highest admissible temperature. The thermally released switching mechanism is comprised of a lever element made of a memory element which, upon exceeding the highest permissible temperature set value, lifts the brush from a commutator or a slipring. This mechanism preferrably employs a memory element with a two-way effect. This thermal switching mechanism is suitable both for commutator motors with hammer or tubular brush holder systems as well as for slipring motors.

Thermal overload protection apparatus for a commutator or slipring motor

An end switch for use with a shaft and a drive which drives the shaft through a relatively large number of 360.degree. angular rotations associated with an end position wherein the end switch is provided with a switching member and with a spindle drive means responsive to the drive for causing an end face of the switching member to be brought into engagement with a contact of a stationary switch at the end of the rotation of the shaft. In accordance with the invention, the spindle drive means moves the switching member axially thereto during a first portion of the shaft rotation and tangentially thereto during the remaining portion of the shaft rotation, the former portion being larger than the latter portion.

End switch for a shaft driven through a large angle of rotation

A shut-off unit is disclosed. The shut-off unit is to be used to shut off a drive unit which drives a tubular shaft, the latter shaft being employed, in turn, to wind an awning or a roller blind up and down. More particularly, the drive unit includes an electric motor and a step down gear drive axially aligned therewith and the shut-off unit is adapted to be arrangeable in the drive unit so that the step down gear lies between it and the motor. Additionally, the shut-off unit includes switches for stopping the drive and members for operating such switches which have presettable positions dependent upon presettable positions of a driven part of the electric motor. In accordance with the invention, the aforesaid members are in the form of cams which have lobes and which are adapted to rotate as a function of the movement of the element to be wound and to be drivingly connectable to the central output shaft of the step down gear. With such an arrangement for the drive unit it can have shorter mounting dimensions and can be driven directly by the centrally disposed step down gear.

Shut-off unit in a drive unit for awnings and roller blinds

A brake for drive motors wherein a brake disk is adapted to be pressed against a stationary brake lining which is provided with a bead-like rim and which is held elastically both radially and axially via a molded rubber member having a profile which bears a mating relationship to the bead-like rim, thereby permitting the brake lining to be held by the member detentably in the manner of a snap connection. The brake is further provided with a brake disk ring which is firmly connected to the molded rubber member and which is adapted to be connected to a stationary member.

Brake device for drive motors

A drive unit for awnings and roller blinds is disclosed. The drive unit is adapted to be installed in a tubular shaft upon which an awning cloth or the roller blind is to be wound. More specifically, the unit comprises the following components which are arranged along a common axis: an electric motor; a reduction gear; a shut-off unit with associated setting means; and a coupling member adapted to transmit the torque from the reduction gear to the tubular shaft. In accordance with the invention, the reduction gear is arranged between the electric motor and the shut-off unit. Additionally, a hollow gear wheel is provided as the coupling member. The latter gear wheel is adapted to support and to be drivingly connectable to the surrounding tubular shaft, and is also in driving connection with the reduction gear. With the drive unit designed as above, its axial dimension can be made relatively short.

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Rottendorf, Germany

Adolf Lindner