This application claims the benefit of Japanese Application No. 2021-081210, filed May 12, 2021, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to a motor.
So-called flat motors are known. In the flat motor, the length of a stator core in the radial direction is larger than the length of the stator core in the axial direction. In the flat motor, a connecting member such as a substrate is disposed near the stator of the motor.
In the flat motor, the length of the motor in the axial direction is required to be reduced, while it is preferable to enable the stator core to have the height (stack length) in the axial direction in order to suppress the saturation of the magnetic flux and increase the torque.
An object of an aspect is to provide a motor capable of reducing the length in the axial direction.
In one aspect, a motor includes a stator and a substrate. The stator includes a plurality of magnetic bodies disposed side by side in a circumferential direction and a coil wound around each of the plurality of magnetic bodies. The substrate opposes the stator in a rotational axis direction. The coil includes a first layer and a second layer stacked on the first layer. 1≤D/L holds, where L is a thickness of the magnetic body in the rotational axis direction and D is a width the magnetic body in a radial direction. The second layer is a layer remotest from the magnetic body. In the radial direction, a conducting wire of the first layer and a conducting wire of the second layer making up an inner edge of the coil are in contact with each other, and, in the radial direction, a conducting wire of the first layer and a conducting wire of the second layer making up an outer edge of the coil are in contact with each other.
According to one aspect, the length in the axial direction can be reduced.
An embodiment of a motor disclosed in the present application will be elaborated below with reference to the drawings. Note that the present invention is not limited by the following embodiment. In addition, the dimensional relationships between elements and the ratios of the elements in the drawings may differ from the actual configuration. Some parts may differ from each other in dimensional relationships and ratios between the drawings. For example, in following
Note that in the following description, for convenience, the axial direction in the illustration is a rotational axis direction of the motor of the present embodiment. In the axial direction, one direction (upward direction) is a first direction, and the other direction (downward direction) is a second direction. The radial direction illustrated in the drawing is the radial direction orthogonal to the rotational axis direction of the motor of the present embodiment. In the radial direction, a direction away from a rotational axis Z described later is the outside in the radial direction, and the direction toward the rotational axis Z is the inside in the radial direction. The circumferential direction illustrated in the drawing is a direction coinciding with the rotational direction of the motor of the present embodiment. In each drawing, a coordinate axis including at least one of the axial direction, the radial direction and the circumferential direction may be illustrated for the sake of the ease of description. In addition, in the coordinate axis, the direction toward the outside in the radial direction may be the positive direction.
First, a motor of an embodiment will be described with reference to
As illustrated in
The stator 3 illustrated in
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The land 29 is a connecting part formed of a conductive member and connected to the conducting wire 14. As described later, the first end part 141 and the second end part 142 of the conducting wire 14 drawn from the coil 30 are physically and electrically connected to the land 29 by a solder 19 being an alloy illustrated in
The rotor 80 is disposed inside the stator 3 in the radial direction. As illustrated in
In addition, as illustrated in
The housing 90 houses the substrate 2, the stator 3, and the rotor 80. The housing 90 includes the lid part, and an outer periphery part and a bottom part not illustrated in the drawing. As illustrated in
In addition, the housing 90 further includes a sensor 91 and a sensor holder 92. The sensor 91 detects at least one of the rotational speed and the rotation angle of the rotor 80 by detecting the magnetic flux of the rotor magnet 81. As illustrated in
Next, a configuration of each split core 10 will be described with reference to
The stator core 11 is a magnetic body having a layered structure obtained by layering a plurality of electromagnetic steel plates and the like in the axial direction, for example. A plurality of the stator cores 11 is disposed along the circumferential direction in an annular pattern. The stator core 11 includes a yoke 11b and a tooth 11a including a magnetic pole part opposing the rotor 80 as an end part. The tooth 11a extends from the inner surface of the yoke 11b toward the inside (the rotor 80 side) in the radial direction. As illustrated in
In the stator core 11 of the motor 1 being a so-called flat motor, the length (width) in the radial direction is formed to be greater than the height (thickness) in the axial direction. In the present embodiment, as illustrated in
The insulator 12 is formed of an insulator such as resin, and interposed between the stator core 11 and the coil 30 to electrically insulate the coil 30 and the stator core 11, for example. As illustrated in
The wall part 122 of the insulator 12 is located at the outer periphery side of the substrate 2 in an assembled state with the substrate 2 assembled to the stator 3. As viewed from the radial direction, the wall part 122 is formed in a substantially rectangular shape, and is protruded from the yoke 11b in the axial direction. In addition, in the present embodiment, a recess part 122A recessed in the axial direction and a tilted surface 122B tilted at a predetermined angle with respect to the axial direction are formed in the wall part 122, as illustrated in
Next, an operation of forming the coil 30 by winding the conducting wire 14 around the insulator 12 in the present embodiment will be described. The coil 30 is wound clockwise or counterclockwise around the tooth 11a of the stator core 11 via the housing part 121 of the insulator 12 so as to surround the top surface 123 and the side surface 125 of the insulator 12. The coil 30 of the present embodiment is a so-called concentrated winding coil wound around one stator core 11, for example. In addition, the conducting wire 14 of the present embodiment is a circular wire made of copper, for example.
As illustrated in
Next, the conducting wire is wound at the outside in the axial direction from the conducting wire 1i of the first layer, so that a second layer of the coil 30 is formed. In this case, as illustrated in
Then, a conducting wire 2n forming the second layer of the coil 30 is wound outward in the radial direction from the conducting wire 2i toward a conducting wire 2o of the second layer forming the outer edge oE of the coil 30. In this case, as illustrated in
In the present embodiment, for example, an end part I2 of the conducting wire 2i at the inside in the radial direction is located at the outer edge oE side, i.e., the outside in the radial direction, relative to an end part I1 of the conducting wire 1i at the inside in the radial direction as illustrated in
In addition, in the present embodiment, a length T in the radial direction from the conducting wire 2i at the inner edge side to the conducting wire 2o at the outer edge side of the conducting wire 2n making up the second layer is smaller than a length S in the radial direction from the inner periphery side to the outer periphery side of the substrate 2 as illustrated in
In addition, in top view, the entirety of the coil 30 of the present embodiment is located inside the extension lines of the yoke 11b of the stator core 11 in the circumferential direction. For example, as illustrated in
In addition, in the present embodiment, the length (thickness) L of the stator core 11 in the axial direction is greater than the sum of lengths (the thickness of the coil end part) Ta and Tb of the coil 30 in the axial direction as illustrated in
In this case, the second layer 32 of the coil 30 is a layer remotest from the stator core 11 in the axial direction and the circumferential direction. The height of the stator is reduced by reducing the number of turns of the coil.
Next, an operation of drawing and assembling the first end part 141 and the second end part 142 of the conducting wire 14 being the draw wire drawn from the coil 30 of the present embodiment to the substrate side first recess part 21 and the substrate side second recess part 22 will be described with reference to
The first end part 141 and the second end part 142 of the conducting wire 14 drawn in the first direction are connected to the land 29 of the substrate 2 as illustrated in
As illustrated in
The first end part 141 of the conducting wire 14 is located at the inside of the substrate side first recess part 21 and the second end part 142 is located at the inside of the substrate side second recess part 22, in the assembled state with the substrate 2 assembled to the stator 3. The first end part 141 and the second end part 142 are disposed and oriented to oppose each other in the circumferential direction. The first end part 141 and the second end part 142 sandwich the substrate protrusion part 23 between the substrate side first recess part 21 and the substrate side second recess part 22 in the circumferential direction. As illustrated in
In the present embodiment, the first end part 141 of the conducting wire 14 and another coil 30 wound around another split core 10 are electrically connected through the substrate 2. In this case, the draw wire drawn from another coil 30 and the first end part 141 do not intersect each other. Thus, the space for intersecting the draw wires does not need to be left, and thus the axial length of the motor 1 can be reduced.
The first layer 31 and the second layer 32 of the coil 30 are wound such that the cross-sectional shape of the coil 30 illustrated in
In the present embodiment, after the first layer 31 is wound from the conducting wire 1o at the outer edge side to the conducting wire 1i at the inner edge side, the second layer 32 of the coil 30 is wound starting from a part located at the circumferential direction side in the conducting wire 2i at the inner edge side of the coil 30. That is, the winding start of the second layer 32 is formed at an end part at the circumferential direction side at the inner edge iE of the coil 30. Also in this case, a gap G2 is left between the inner edges of the two coils 30 adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction, and thus the interference with the other adjacent coil 30 in the circumferential direction can be suppressed. In addition, the collapse of the winding of the coil 30 can be suppressed and the axial length of the motor can be reduced compared with the case of starting the winding of the second layer 32 at the end part at the axial direction side of the coil 30.
As described above, the motor 1 of the present embodiment includes the stator 3 and the substrate 2. The stator 3 includes the plurality of magnetic bodies 11 disposed side by side in the circumferential direction, and the coil 30 wound around each of the plurality of magnetic bodies 11. The substrate 2 opposes the stator 3 in the rotational axis direction. The coil 30 includes the first layer 31 and the second layer 32 stacked on the first layer 31. 1≤D/L holds, where L is the thickness of the magnetic body 11 in the rotational axis direction and D is the width of the magnetic body 11 in the radial direction. The second layer 32 is a layer remotest from the magnetic body 11. The conducting wire 1i of the first layer 31 and the conducting wire 2i of the second layer 32 making up the inner edge iE of the coil 30 are in contact with each other in the radial direction, and the conducting wire 1o of the first layer 31 and the conducting wire 2o of the second layer 32 making up the outer edge oE of the coil 30 are in contact with each other in the radial direction. With this configuration, the length of the motor 1 in the axial direction can be reduced.
In addition, in the motor 1, the conducting wire 2i of the second layer 32 making up the inner edge iE is located at the outer edge oE side in the radial direction relative to the conducting wire 1i of the first layer 31 making up the inner edge iE, and the conducting wire 2o of the second layer 32 making up the outer edge oE is located at the inner edge iE side in the radial direction relative to the conducting wire 1o of the first layer 31 making up the outer edge oE. In addition, in the motor 1, the conducting wires 1n form the first layer 31 are in contact with each other in the radial direction, the conducting wires 1n forming the first layer 31 being adjacent to each other in the radial direction, and the conducting wires 2n forming the second layer 32 are in contact with each other in the radial direction, the conducting wires 2n forming the second layer 32 are adjacent to each other in the radial direction. In addition, the drawing position of the draw wire 14 drawn from the coil 30 is the outer edge oE of the coil 30. Further, at the coil 30 of the motor 1, the winding start of the second layer 32 is formed at an end part of the conducting wire 2i of the second layer 32 making up the inner edge iE of the coil 30, in the circumferential direction of the coil 30. With this configuration, the collapse of the winding of the coil 30 can be suppressed while the occupancy ratio of the coil 30 is enhanced.
In addition, in the motor 1, the entirety of the coil 30 is located at the magnetic body 11 side in the circumferential direction relative to the extension lines X1 and X2 of the end surfaces Ea and Eb of the outer periphery part 11b of the magnetic body 11. In this case, a gap is formed in the circumferential direction between the coils 30 wound around respective two magnetic bodies 11 adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction among the plurality of magnetic bodies 11. In addition, in the radial direction, the ratio of the length T from the conducting wire 2i at the inner edge side to the conducting wire 2o at the outer edge side of the second layer 32 with respect to the length S from the inner periphery part to the outer periphery part of the substrate 2 is within a range of 50% to 90%. With this configuration, with the gaps G1 and G2 provided as illustrated in
In addition, the motor 1 includes the rotor 80 with the thickness L2 equal to or greater than the thickness L of the magnetic body 11 in the rotational axis direction, and the sensor 91 disposed to oppose the rotor 80 in the rotational axis direction. In the rotational axis direction, the sensor located at a height P2 is located at the rotor 80 side, i.e., the negative side in the rotational axis direction, relative to the substrate located at a height P1. The draw wire 14 is drawn through the recess parts 21 and 22 formed at the outer periphery part of the substrate 2. The draw wire 14 and a draw wire 14 drawn from another coil 30 are electrically connected to each other through the substrate 2. With this configuration, with the recess parts 21 and 22 formed at the substrate 2, the connection region of the draw wire 14 and the substrate 2 can be left and the distance between the substrate 2 and the stator 3 can be reduced, and thus, the length of the motor 1 in the axial direction can be reduced. In addition, since the sensor 91 can be brought closer to the rotor magnet 81, the detection accuracy of the magnetic flux at the sensor 91 can be improved. Further, by setting the thickness L2 of the rotor 80 to a thickness greater than the thickness L of the stator core 11, the demagnetization due to interference between the magnetic flux of the stator 3 and the magnetic flux of the rotor 80 less occurs.
In addition, in the motor 1, the thickness L of the magnetic body 11 in the axial direction is greater than the sum of the thicknesses Ta and Tb of the coil 30 in the axial direction. With this configuration, even in the motor 1 being a flat motor, the number (stack length) of stator cores can be increased, and thus generation of saturation of the magnetic flux can be suppressed, and, the torque can be increased.
The configurations of the present embodiment has been described above, but the embodiment is not limited to these configurations. For example, the motor 1 is not limited to the brushless motor. In addition, the conducting wire 14 may be further wound at a position further inside the first layer 31 of the coil 30 in the axial direction, i.e., a position close to the stator core 11.
In addition, as illustrated in
Further, while the conducting wire 14 forming the coil 30 is composed of a single copper circular wire, the conducting wire 14 is not limited to this wire, and the conducting wire 14 may be composed of a plurality of circular wires. In this case, it suffices that any of a plurality of circular wires making up the conducting wires 14 adjacent to each other is in contact with any of a plurality of circular wires making up other conducting wires 14. In addition, the conducting wire 14 with a different shape such as a rectangular wire may be used instead of the circular wire made of copper.
Embodiments and modified examples of the present invention have been described, but the present invention is not limited to the embodiments and modified examples, and various modifications are possible without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Various modifications within a scope not departing from the gist are included in the technical scope of the present invention, and this is obvious to a person having skill in the art from the description of the claims.
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