Robert Boschgmbh

Hansjoerg Karcher

Richard Hurst

Juergen Herp

Ernst Fischer

Detlef Lauk

Erik Maurer

Andreas Wiegert

Bernd Bock

Anton Waibel

Lothar Fauth

Christian Schneider

Detlef Lauf

Gerhard Michenfelder

In an electric motor-and-gear assembly for driving automotive power accessories such as front and rear wipers, power window units, or the like, having transmission casing, that can be closed by means of a casing cover, and having a socket that is disposed in the casing cover and can be contacted by means of a connector plug in order to connect the electric motor to the electrical system of the vehicle, for the sake of a uniform, single design of the socket when there are structurally varied designs of connector plugs, the socket is attached to an interchangeable adapter which has a first group of electrical contacts adapted to the socket and a second group of electrical contacts adapted to the connector plug. The contacts of the two contact groups, which are comprised of plug tabs, are connected to one another in an electrically conductive manner inside or along a surface of the adapter.

Interchangeable adapter for electric motor-and-gear assembly

In an electric-motor drive device for auxiliary devices in motor vehicles, such as sliding roofs, window controls, windshield wipers, and the like, having a gear housing ( ) and a cup-shaped motor housing ( ) that is slipped with its opening edge ( ) onto the gear housing ( ) and fixed thereon, to reduce manufacturing costs and the requisite installation space and improve force introduction from the motor housing ( ) to the gear housing ( ), the motor housing ( ), in its slip-on region, is roller-burnished into the gear housing ( ).

Electric-motor drive device

An electric motor-and-gear assembly for driving vehicle aggregates such as windshield and rear window wipers, power-window units and the like, having a transmission housing that can be closed by a housing cover. A motor housing that contains a commutator motor whose commutator protrudes into the transmission housing and cooperates with a brush holder fixed in the transmission housing. For the sake of a more reasonably priced manufacture and a time-saving, more rapid assembly of the brush holder, the commutator brushes are embodied as hammer brushes with spring leaf actuators prestressed toward the commutator. The spring leaf actuator are respectively fixed with their one actuator end in a U-shaped plastic carrying part of the brush holder, which is inserted into the transmission housing radial to the commutator, through the housing opening and is positioned in the transmission housing in a positively engaging manner by means of the housing cover.

Electric motor-and-gear assembly for vehicle accessories

An electric drive unit for vehicle systems, such as power windows and windshield wipers, having a commutator motor that has a commutator and at least two commutator brushes. The electric drive unit includes electrical components of an electronic system for the motor. To reduce production costs and simplify assembly, the electrical components are electrically secured to a lead frame that makes the electrical connection between the components and the commutator motor and the commutator brushes are embodied as hammerhead brushes, whose carrier plates are bent in one piece out of the lead frame.

Electric drive unit for vehicle systems

An electric drive unit having an electric drive motor and a transmission. The electric drive motor has an armature shaft which extends, for example, to a worm shaft of the transmission. The shaft is embodied of one piece with the armature shaft. A first bearing and a second bearing are provided to support the armature shaft. The second bearing is embodied as a ball bearing with an outer ring, an inner ring, and balls. The inner ring is press-fitted in a rotationally fixed manner onto the armature shaft. The outer ring is slid into a receiving bore disposed in the transmission housing and is pressed against an axial stop face adjoining the receiving bore by means of a retaining part that is supported in an installation channel and has flexible tongues that are directed toward the outer ring. This axial pressing can be produced in an easy-to-assemble fashion and is also inexpensive thanks to a low cost of the retaining part. The proposed electrical drive unit can be used, for example, for at least one windshield wiper of a vehicle.

Electric drive unit

The invention relates to a shaft and hub connection for securing bearings, in particular ball bearings (,), on a shaft (,). The proposal is made that the hub part (,) of the bearing (,) encompassing the shaft (,) have at least one axial surface (,), against which a projection (,) rests, which is produced from the shaft (,) by means of plastic deformation and prevents an axial movement.

Shaft-hub assembly and method of production thereof

An electric drive unit, for windshield wipers of a motor vehicle, including a drive motor, having an armature accommodated in a substantially cup-shaped pole housing, and including a gearbox, secured by a face end to the pole housing for receiving at least one worm, wheel supported on a power takeoff shaft. The worm wheel engages a worm connected to an armature shaft of the drive motor. The power takeoff shaft is supported in an eccentric bush which is rotatable to set the axial spacing between the armature shaft and the power takeoff shaft and can be mounted in the rotated state, in a manner fixed against relative rotation, in the gearbox. The eccentric bush is embodied in a graduated fashion, such that it has a larger diameter on a side toward the flange than on another side remote from the flange.

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Buehlertal, Germany

Hansjoerg Karcher