Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki K.k.

Hiroyuki Takagi

Hiroyuki Amano

Shinichiro Iwasaki

Kouji Hirao

Masao Suzuki

Yoshitaka Inagaki

Kazuhiro Matsukawa

Rika Fujita

A DC brush motor includes an armature fixed to a shaft for unitary rotation with the shaft. The shaft is rotatably supported with respect to a case by way of a pair of bearings. The armature is made up of a core, a coil winding, and a resin-made supporting member for supporting the core with the core rotating together with the shaft. The supporting member has a concave or recessed portion for receiving a boss of the case. Several commutator segments forming a commutator are arranged along the inner periphery of the recessed portion. A brush is held in a brush holder and is biased outwardly by the biasing force of a coil spring to contact a brush contact portion of the brush.

DC brush motor

A pump unit for assisting in the blood feeding operation of a heart includes a pair of pumps 7a, 7b connected in parallel with each other. When the pump 7a (or 7b) has reached its expanded position and the pump 7b (or 7a) has reached its contracted position, the operation is changed so that the pump 7a (or 7b) is set up for contraction while the pump 7b (or 7a) is set up for expansion. A time difference TCM between the time when the expanded position is reached and the time when the contracted position is reached is determined. If TCM&gt;Tr, a driving pressure for contraction is changed to a higher value while if TCM&lt;Tr, a driving pressure for contraction is changed to a lower value. Tr represents a non-responsive interval which can be adjusted by an operator. When Tr has a high value, the pump exhibits a low flow rate which serves as a drive to assist in the delivery of blood by the heart. In this manner, the operator is enabled to adjust the driving flow rate.

Fluid feeding pump unit

An actuator end cap is provided for an actuator having a housing and a cover connected together and defining a joint therebetween. The end cap has a skirt portion disposed in overlying relation to the joint to provide a fluid-tight seal for the joint. A breather hole is formed in the side of the cover and a semi-cylindrical groove is formed on the inner surface of the skirt of the end cap. One end of the groove is disposed in communication with the breather hole in the cover and the other end of the groove is in communication with a vent hole extending outwardly through the end cap.

End cap for an actuator

An electric motor assembly is comprised of a two-part cylindrical housing having a stepped interconnection. A circular plate is secured between the two housing portions by means of a plurality of spring clips located in peripheral recesses on said disk and having a flexible extension portion disposed in stressed engagement with one of said cylindrical housing portions to bias the plate into engagement with the stepped portion of the other cylindrical housing portion. The stator and rotor may be located on one side of the plate and a brush may be mounted on the opposite side of the plate for engagement with a commutator rotatable with the rotor.

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Gifu, Japan

Hiroyuki Takagi