Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Miyuki Furuya

Makoto Hasegawa

Tsutomu Hashimoto

Kouji Kuyama

Masatoshi Kawano

Teruo Maruyama

Hiroshi Maeda

Yukihiro Okada

Hiroyasu Fujinaka

Hiroto Inoue

Keigo Kusaka

Kodo Fukuoka

Hiroyoshi Teshima

Norishige Moritan

Ryoji Saneshige

Kazuichi Yamashita

Hironobu Nishida

Kouzi Kuyama

Shinobu Taniguchi

A reduced pressure or pressurizing pump is provided which can be used in a wide variety of fields of foods, pharmaceuticals, medical treatment, agriculture, healthcare equipment, room air conditioning, combustion, biotechnology, and so on. By the application of the pump of the present invention, there can be materialized, for example, an oxygen enriching apparatus or a nitrogen enriching apparatus, which have the features of an oil-free structure, a small size, compactness, low vibration, low noise, long operating life, and so on. A transport groove of a viscosity pump, which exerts a force feed action on the fluid, is formed at a relative displacement interface between a rotor and a housing, and the rotor supported by a bearing capable of coping with a high-speed rotation is rotated at a high speed.

Fluid transport system and method therefor

An electromagnetic vibrator includes a movable body producing vibration by revolving motion or reciprocating motion with respect to its center axis through being powered from the outside. The vibrator also includes an outer shell supporting the moving body and having two mounting faces, one being vertical and the other being parallel to the center axis. A portable device employs this electromagnetic vibrator. This structure allows the portable device to gain vibration in either direction, thereby increasing the versatility of the device. When a plurality of the electromagnetic vibrators are mounted to a device with their center axes in different directions or in the same direction, vertical and lateral vibrations can be produced at the same time, so that the device owns complex vibration modes and performs versatile functions.

Electromagnetic vibrator and portable device employing the same

Motor

In a coreless motor, a shaft of the coreless motor does not pass through a magnet but is arranged in series with a columnar magnet on the same axis. The magnet is inserted in a tubular frame made of magnetic material and a coil which is mounted on the shaft is inserted in the gap between the outer surface of the magnet and the inner surface of the frame.

Coreless motor

The present invention is directed to a flat brushless motor utilizable as a warning in a portable communication device. The center of gravity of the rotor assembly is displaced from the center of rotation so that, by the rotation of the unbalanced rotor assembly, vibrations can be generated and the. By elimination of an eccentric or the like for generating the vibrations, a manufacture in a flat and compact size, as well as a reduction in the number of component parts, can be attained.

Flat brushless motor

Flat brushless motor with a back-yoke formed as an eccentric weight to

Fixed members of the small-sized motor centrifugal governor switch and commutator segment metals are secured to a boss of a molding insulating resin mounted on a shaft of the rotor, thereby disposing the centrifugal governor switch on the same side as the commutator with respect to the rotor. With this construction, there is no need of installing the centrifugal governor switch in the space radially centrally of the stator magnet, hence there is no need of restricting the size of the centrifugal governor switch to be smaller than the inner diameter of the stator magnet. Accordingly the centrifugal governor switch can be made larger, thereby securing a better function.

Small-sized motor with centrifugal governor switch

A metal tube with outwardly bent risers for terminals is filled with a body of plastic resin which hardens in place. Then the tube is cut through, chordwise, a plurality of times to provide a plurality of segments. An extended, base portion of the plastic resin body through which the risers extend radially outwardly continues to hold the cylindrical disposition of the metal segments, with gaps maintained therebetween. A shaft is fitted coaxially in the base portion of the plastic resin body and extends through a larger diameter central bore of the body, centrally of the commutator segments. The gaps communicate with the annular space between this bore and the shaft, for cleaning out of particulate debris by centrifugal force.

Method of making a commutator for small-sized electric motor

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Yonago, Japan

Miyuki Furuya