Asmo Co., Ltd.

Denso Corporation

Tomohiro Aoyama

Yasuhide Ito

Toshio Yamamoto

Shinji Makita

Yoshiki Nakano

Masashi Matsuda

Shinichi Mukainakano

Shinichi Okada

Takafumi Negi

Yoshiyuki Hisada

Kohei Shibata

Satoshi Annen

Atsushi Kato

Isamu Adachi

Takeshi Hasegawa

Norihiro Sugimoto

Ayahiko Ichimiya

Kiyoshige Kato

A motor includes a motor unit, a speed reduction mechanism, a motion conversion mechanism, and a housing. The motion conversion mechanism converts rotary motion of the speed reduction. mechanism into reciprocating rotary motion and transmits the motion to an output shaft. The speed reduction mechanism includes a worm, a first gear, and a second gear. The worm is disposed on a rotation shaft of the motor unit. The first gear transmits rotation of the worm and rotates about a first shaft. The second gear receives rotation of the first gear and rotates about a second shaft. The motion conversion mechanism includes a rotary member and a rod. The rotary member includes a sector gear and rotates about an axis of the first shaft. The rod couples the second gear and the rotary member. The output shaft includes an output gear that engages the sector gear.

Motor with speed reduction mechanism

A vehicular wiper device includes a first wiper arm, a first drive source, a rocking mechanism, a second drive source, an extension and retraction mechanism, and a control unit. A first wiper blade for wiping a surface to be wiped of a vehicle is connected to the front end of the first wiper arm. The first drive source is directly or indirectly affixed to the vehicle body. The rocking mechanism is driven by the drive force of the first drive source and reciprocates and rocks the first wiper arm. The second drive source is directly or indirectly affixed to the vehicle body separately from the first drive source. The extension and retraction mechanism is driven by the drive force of the second drive source and extends and retracts the first wiper arm in the longitudinal direction thereof. The control unit controls the drive of the first drive source and the second drive source so that the extension and retraction operation of the first wiper arm performed by the extension and retraction mechanism will correspond to the rocking operation of the first wiper arm performed by the rocking mechanism.

Vehicular wiper device

A stator for a rotating electric machine includes an annular stator core and a plurality of winding groups mounted on teeth of the stator core. Each of the winding groups is either a short-pitch winding group which consists of windings wound at a pitch shorter than 180&#xb0; in electrical angle or a full-pitch winding group which consists of windings wound at a pitch equal to 180&#xb0; in electrical angle. The winding groups include at least one short-pitch winding group pair which consists of two short-pitch winding groups that respectively belong to two different phases and are circumferentially adjacent to each other. The two short-pitch winding groups are arranged so as not to overlap each other in a radial direction of the stator core. There are no other winding groups interposed between the two short-pitch winding groups in the circumferential direction of the stator core.

Stator for rotating electric machine

A motor has a plurality of permanent magnet pieces aligned is such a manner as to surround an armature core and a magnetic-flux guide ring disposed between the permanent magnet pieces and the armature core for introducing a magnetic flux from the permanent magnet pieces to the armature core. The magnetic-flux guide ring has a confronting portion confronting each of the magnet pieces, an aperture formed in the confronting portion, and a connecting portion connecting adjacent two confronting portions. The aperture is formed in such a manner as to confront a boundary of adjacent magnet pieces.

Motor

A stator has four or more magnetic poles. A commutator has a plurality of segments arranged in the circumferential direction and a short-circuit conductor for short-circuiting predetermined segments from among these segments. Each segment has an angular width WS, and there is a gap of an angular width WU between the segments. A substantial angular width WB of each of an anode brush and a cathode brush satisfies (n&#x2212;1)(WS+WU)+WU&#x3c;WB&#x3c;n(WS+WU)+WU, where n is an integer no less than two. A plurality of coils are each connected to the corresponding one of the segments in order to form n closed loops. The closed loops each pass through the corresponding segments and are electrically independent of each other.

Direct current motor

A short-circuit member assembly for short-circuiting a plurality of segments arranged in a circumferential direction is disclosed. The short-circuit member assembly includes first and second short-circuit member groups that are superimposed with each other. The first short-circuit member group includes m first terminals, which are superimposed and joined with m first terminals included in the second short-circuit member group to form m first-terminal joint portions. The m first-terminal joint portions and the remaining first terminals in the short-circuit member groups are arranged in the circumferential direction and connected to the segments. All of the second terminals in the first short-circuit member group are superimposed and joined with all of the second terminals included in the second short-circuit member group.

Short-circuit member assembly, commutator, and motor

A method of manufacturing a commutator main body which has a cylindrical insulating body, and a plurality of segments arranged in an outer circumference of the insulating body. A short-circuit member is arranged in an end in an axial direction of the insulating body. The short-circuit member has a plurality of first short-circuit pieces and a plurality of second short-circuit pieces. A tabular insulating portion covers first coupling portions of the first short-circuit pieces, and second coupling portions of the second short-circuit pieces. The insulating portion has a restriction recess, and the end in the axial direction has a restriction projection. The restriction projection is engaged with the restriction recess, whereby the movement of the short-circuit member in the circumferential direction with respect to the commutator main body is restricted. Accordingly, the assembly of the short-circuit member in the commutator main body is facilitated.

Method of manufacturing a commutator

In a direct current electric motor, segment pieces of a commutator are generally planar and are arranged one after another in a circumferential direction about a rotational axis of the commutator. A slidably engaging surface of each segment piece, which is slidably engageable with a plurality of brushes of the motor, extends in a plane that is generally perpendicular to the rotational axis, and each segment piece includes a radially inner engaging portion at a radially inner end part of the segment piece. Each conductive line extends along a corresponding straight line and electrically interconnects between the radially inner engaging portions of corresponding two of the plurality of segment pieces to implement the same electric potential in the corresponding two of the plurality of segment pieces.

Planar commutator, rotor and direct current electric motor

Coils are provided on a plurality of tooth sections of a core. The coils are formed by successively winding a conductor on the tooth sections with at least one tooth section between each successive windings, such that each portion of the conductor extending between two tooth sections located with at least one tooth section therebetween forms a jumper wire extending in the circumferential direction of the core. A commutator has a plurality of claw portions projecting to the outside of the commutator. Each of the claw portions electrically connects one of a plurality of segments to one of the jumper wires. When the core and the commutator are attached to a rotary shaft, each claw portion is arranged at a position corresponding to one of the jumper wires as viewed in the axial direction of the rotary shaft.

Armature, method for manufacturing the armature, and direct current motor

In a process of producing a SiC device, a Si layer is formed on the surface of a SiC substrate, and the Si layer is removed from the surface of the SiC substrate by supplying oxygen gas to the Si layer in a high ambient temperature and a low ambient pressure. The pressure is set at 1&times;10 to 1&times;10 Pa. Thus a cleaned surface of the SiC substrate, not contaminated by carbon and the like in atmospheric air, can be provided. Preferably, the oxygen pressure and temperature are set at about 10 Pa and 1000&deg; C. for removing the Si layer. Thereafter, the oxygen is further supplied to raise the pressure to about 10 Pa to form an oxide film on the cleaned SiC substrate. Thus, the SiC substrate is cleaned and then formed with the oxide layer in the same chamber by changing the ambient pressure but without changing the ambient temperature.

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Tomohiro Aoyama