The present invention is related to a motor device, and more particularly to a motor device utilizing magnetic force to drive a rotor for driving a fluid.
A conventional pump device serves to drive a fluid to flow within a pipeline. The pump device generally includes a waterwheel or a cylinder communicating with a pipeline. The waterwheel or the cylinder is externally connected with a motor. The motor operates to rotate the waterwheel or reciprocate the cylinder for driving the fluid within the pipeline. Accordingly, the fluid can circularly flow between two positions or transfer from a position to another position.
The motor can be a brushless one or a brush motor. Basically, the output power of the brush motor is smaller than the output power of the brushless motor, while the structure and controlling circuit of the brushless motor are more complicated than the structure and controlling circuit of the brush motor.
The above conventional pump device is equipped with the motor so that much room is occupied and the cost is relatively high. In general, one single pump device is arranged for one single pipeline system. However, in some cases, one single pump device is arranged for more than one pipeline system. Under such circumstance, it is necessary to arrange multiple switch valves or check valves on the pipeline systems. In such case, the cost is still high and it is inconvenient to use the pump device.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,364,003 of this applicant discloses a measure for driving fluids. Five magnets are disposed in chamber perforated with several openings. A coil with alternate current is used to drive one of the magnets to reciprocally move, whereby two fluids are alternately driven. Such measure is applicable to a liquid cooling system or phase transformation cooling system. Especially, by means of such measure, the environmental cold air can be sucked in to serve as a coolant. When assembled, the five magnets are arranged with the poles of the same polarity directed to each other.
It is therefore a primary object of the present invention to provide a motor device utilizing magnetic force to drive a rotor. The motor has a brushless structure and equipped with a non-conventional wheel blade type or piston type pump. The using life of the motor is prolonged and the efficiency of the motor is better.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide the above motor device, in which one single rotor and few components are used for driving a fluid.
It is still a further object of the present invention to provide the above motor device which has simple structure and includes fewer components to form a brushless power structure.
According to the above objects, the motor device utilizing magnetic force to drive the rotor of the present invention includes a main body, a rotor and a controlling unit. The main body has two openings and an internal chamber. The rotor is magnetic and swingably disposed in the chamber between the two openings. The controlling unit serves to apply a magnetic force to the rotor for driving the rotor. The rotor is a column body with a certain length. The outer face of the rotor is formed with at least one spiral groove to define at least one spiral stripe.
The present invention can be best understood through the following description and accompanying drawings wherein:
Please refer to FIGS. 1 to 3. The motor device of the present invention includes a main body 11, a rotor 12 and a controlling unit 13.
The main body 11 has two openings 111 and an internal chamber 112 communicating with the two openings 111. In this embodiment, the main body 11 is a cylindrical tubular body with a certain length.
The rotor 12 is a column body or a cylindrical body with a certain length. The rotor 12 has a profile corresponding to the configuration of the peripheral wall of the chamber 112 and is swingably disposed in the chamber 112. The rotor 12 creates a magnetic field, whereby a magnetic force can be applied to the rotor 12. The outer face of the rotor 12 is formed with at least one spiral groove 121 to define at least one spiral stripe 122. The spiral groove 121 lengthwise extends from one end of the rotor 12 to the other end about the axis of the rotor 12 (as shown in
The controlling unit 13 is disposed around the main body 11 to serve as function of a stator. The controlling unit 13 serves to apply a magnetic force to the rotor 12 for driving the rotor 12 to at least rotate. The controlling unit 13 includes at least one coil 131 connected to at least one circuit (not shown). The coil 131 is lengthwise wound around the main body 11 about the axis of the rotor 12. The circuit applies an alternate current to the coil 131, whereby the controlling unit 13 creates a time-varied magnetic field to cut across the magnetic field of the rotor 12. Accordingly, the rotor 12 is driven to rotate about its axis. The rotor 12 with the spiral groove 121 can thus drive a fluid to flow from one opening 111 to the other opening 111.
The cut across effect of the at least two magnetic fields of the present invention will make the rotor 12 rotate. The tangential direction of the winding coil 131 is normal to or oblique to the axis of the rotor 12 so as to achieve the cut across effect of the magnetic field.
The current applied to the coil 131 is switched at a preset time for driving the rotor 12. Alternatively, the controlling unit 13 can further include a Hall sensor for accurately detect the position of the rotor 12 by means of Hall effect. Accordingly, the rotor 12 can be driven at more proper time. This pertains to prior art and thus will not be further described hereinafter. Still alternatively, a conventional pulse width modulation (PWM) electronic driving circuit can be used to achieve higher effect.
Referring to FIGS. 4 to 6 show a second embodiment of the present invention, according to
The stator 132 can be a block body or a hollow cylindrical body positioned at one end of the rotor 12 between the coil 131 and the rotor 12.
Certainly, two stator sections 132 can be respectively arranged at one end of the rotor 12 and on one side of the rotor 12 to achieve the same effect. Moreover, the stator section 132 arranged on one side of the rotor 12 can have a permanent magnetic field. The direction of the magnetic lines of the permanent magnetic field is different from the direction of the magnetic lines of the coil 131. Accordingly, the magnetic lines of the permanent magnetic field are guided by the magnetic lines of the stator section 132 at the end of the rotor 12 to compensate/strengthen the magnetic lines of the stator section 132 at the end of the rotor 12. Accordingly, the action force applied to the rotor 12 is enhanced. It should be noted that in the case further stator section 132 is arranged at the other end of the rotor 12, the direction of the magnetic lines of the permanent magnetic field is such arranged as to alternately compensate the magnetic lines of the two stator sections 132 at two ends of the rotor 12.
The controlling unit 13 of the motor device of the present invention further includes a compensator 133 positioned on outer side of the coil 131 for compensating the magnetic force acting on the rotor 12. The compensator 133 includes a first piece 133′ and a second piece 133″. The structures, properties and functions of the compensator 133 are described as follows:
According to the above arrangements, the motor device utilizing magnetic force to drive the rotor of the present invention has the following advantages:
Alternatively, the rotor 12 of the motor device of the present invention can be free from the spiral stripe 12. Instead, the rotor 12 can be a column body or a cylindrical body with a certain length. In such case, the rotor 12 can still rotate to drive other units. On the other hand, in the case that the rotational axis of the rotor 12 does not coincide with the geometrical axis of the rotor 12 or the rotational axis of the rotor 12 does not coincide with the gravity axis of the rotor 12, the motor device of the present invention becomes a vibration motor.
The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the present invention, not intended to limit the scope thereof. Many modifications of the above embodiments can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.
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094146960 | Dec 2005 | TW | national |