Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siegfried Heger

Thomas Drexlmaier

Werner Goeb

Burkard Roechner

Tobias Veil

A brush holder for an electrical machine, and in particular a hammer brush holder, can include a carbon brush inserted with one of its ends provided with a brush shunt into a pot-shaped receptacle part of the brush holder. The carbon brush is retained in the receptacle part by means of clamping. A reliable clamping of the carbon brush is guaranteed by providing a scraper rib on at least one side wall of the receptacle part and designing it to ascend from the entry slot of the receptacle part toward its pot-like bottom with respect to its height and/or its width pointing into the receiving space of the receptacle part. The brush holder may be manufactured from plastic, and the carbon brush is inserted with a clamp locking force fit into a receiving opening of the brush holder. In order to be able to guarantee a secure fixed seating in any case in spite of the unavoidable tolerances in the case of mass production, at least one side wall of the insertion opening having a protruding scraper rib comes to rest against the carbon brush. The scraper rib is arranged or designed to make contact with the carbon brush in a way that allows lateral and/or vertical variation with increasing insertion depth of the carbon brush.

Brush holder for an electrical machine

A simple and space-saving, nevertheless effective and low-noise apparatus for the interior compartment air of a motor vehicle, to impact a temperature sensor of an automatic heating or air-conditioning system is provided. This invention achieves these results by providing, in place of a separate auxiliary fan, an auxiliary air current drawn from the interior compartment and sensing the temperature of that current with a sensor. The impeller of the fan used for circulation in the interior compartment is also equipped with supplemental blades outside its actual main air current to generate an auxiliary air current which is drawn through a separate air channel from the interior compartment passing over the sensor. This air channel, such as a flexible hose, is suitably mounted between the air discharge opening on the dashboard and an air-feed opening in the spiral housing backwall of the fan. This apparatus is particularly suitable for application in the actual value detection of the interior compartment air temperature in a motor vehicle with an automatic heating or air-conditioning system.

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Wuerzburg, Germany

Siegfried Heger