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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2015
Johnson Electric S.a., Murten, CH;
Hong Min Wei, Shenzhen, CN;
Yin Deng, Shenzhen, CN;
Bin Liu, Shenzhen, CN;
Hui Juan Xing, Shenzhen, CN;
Johnson Electric S.A., Murten, CH;
Abstract
A brush assembly has a brush, a brush cage, and a spring. The spring is a constant force spring having two coil portions and a connecting portion. The connecting portion the brush are together received in the brush cage. The brush has a contact end arranged to make sliding contact with a commutator and a second end remote from the contact end against which the spring applies its force, to urge the brush out of the brush cage. A hook is formed at each of two opposite sides of the brush cage, at a first end portion of the brush cage adjacent the contact end of the brush. The coil portions respectively engage the hooks. The hooks extend at different angles to a corresponding outer surface of the brush cage.