U.S. patent application number 16/735153 was filed with the patent office on 2020-07-16 for fan motor and electronic device comprising the same.
The applicant listed for this patent is Min-Soo Park Park. Invention is credited to In-yong Park, Min-Soo Park, Seong-Ki Park.
Application Number | 20200224661 16/735153 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 71516247 |
Filed Date | 2020-07-16 |
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United States Patent
Application |
20200224661 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Park; Min-Soo ; et
al. |
July 16, 2020 |
Fan Motor and Electronic Device Comprising the Same
Abstract
A fan motor and an electric device having the same are disposed.
The fan motor and the electronic device having the same are
provided with: a stator part including a coil and a stator yoke
provided at a lower part of the coil; a rotor part including a
magnet spaced apart from an upper surface of a stator yoke and a
back yoke tightly provided on the upper surface of the magnet; a
fan member including a rotating shaft which rotates to become a
rotation center of the rotor part, and a plurality of impellers to
which the magnet is fixedly coupled on inner circumferential
surfaces of the impellers; a body part accommodating the stator
part; and a cover part having an intake hole and an exhaust hole,
and provided at an upper end part of the body part to accommodate
the plurality of impellers.
Inventors: |
Park; Min-Soo; (Anyang-si,
KR) ; Park; Seong-Ki; (Incheon, KR) ; Park;
In-yong; (Incheon, KR) |
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Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Park; Min-Soo
Park; Seong-Ki
Park; In-yong |
Anyang-si
Incheon
Incheon |
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KR
KR
KR |
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Family ID: |
71516247 |
Appl. No.: |
16/735153 |
Filed: |
January 6, 2020 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
1/1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
F04D 25/0646 20130101;
F04D 29/325 20130101; F04D 25/062 20130101 |
International
Class: |
F04D 25/06 20060101
F04D025/06; F04D 29/32 20060101 F04D029/32 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Jan 15, 2019 |
KR |
10-2019-0005000 |
Claims
1. A fan motor comprising: a stator part comprising a coil and a
stator yoke provided at a lower part of the coil; a rotor part
comprising a magnet spaced apart from an upper surface of the
stator yoke and a back yoke tightly provided on an upper surface of
the magnet; a fan member comprising a rotating shaft which rotates
to become a rotation center of the rotor part, and a plurality of
impellers to which the magnet is fixedly coupled on inner
circumferential surfaces of the impellers; a body part
accommodating the stator part; and a cover part having an intake
hole and an exhaust hole, and provided at an upper end part of the
body part to accommodate the plurality of impellers, wherein the
stator yoke is seated in a groove part provided in a bottom surface
of the body part as a plate-shaped member, the groove part is
provided with a bearing housing for shaft-supporting a sleeve
bearing elongated for rotationally supporting the rotating shaft,
and the bearing housing is provided by protruding integrally with
the body part in a central part where the groove part is
provided.
2. The fan motor of claim 1, wherein a circuit board for driving
the stator part is disposed at a position between the stator yoke
and the magnet.
3. The fan motor of claim 1, wherein an end part of the bearing
housing is provided with a bearing support part provided as an
inner circumferential surface of the bearing housing to prevent the
sleeve bearing from separation.
4. The fan motor of claim 3, wherein the bearing support part
prevents a bearing from separation by fixing the bearing through
insert injection molding, at least one caulking, or heat
welding.
5. The fan motor of claim 4, further comprising: a separation
prevention member provided at a position between the bearing
support and the bearing.
6. The fan motor of claim 1, wherein the bearing housing is
provided with a stopper part for matching centers of gravity of the
rotor part and the sleeve bearing.
7. The fan motor of claim 2, wherein the bearing housing is
simultaneously accommodated inside the stator part, inside the
rotor part, and inside the circuit board.
8. The fan motor of claim 1, wherein the stator yoke is provided at
a position in the groove part of the body part, and is fixed by
insert injection molding or heat welding.
9. The fan motor of claim 1, wherein the stator yoke has a
polygonal shape.
10. The fan motor of claim 1, wherein the coil of the stator part
is a hollow coil, having a square shape.
11. (canceled)
Description
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] The present application claims priority to Korean Patent
Application No. 10-2019-0005000, filed Jan. 15, 2019, the entire
contents of which is incorporated herein for all purposes by this
reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a fan motor that is applied
to a kind of sensor module that detects temperature, humidity, and
a dust turbidity state of indoor air of a vehicle, and further
controls the operation of an air cleaner of the vehicle. More
particularly, the present invention relates to a fan motor and an
electronic device having the same, the fan motor including: a
stator part including a coil and a stator yoke provided at a lower
part of the coil; a rotor part including a magnet spaced apart from
an upper surface of the stator yoke and a back yoke tightly
provided on the upper surface of the magnet; a fan member including
a rotating shaft which rotates to become a rotation center of the
rotor part, and a plurality of impellers to which the magnet is
fixedly coupled on inner circumferential surfaces of the impellers;
a body part accommodating the stator part; and a cover part having
an intake hole and an exhaust hole, and provided at an upper end
part of the body part to accommodate the plurality of impellers,
wherein the stator yoke is seated in a groove part provided in the
bottom surface of the body part as a plate-shaped member, the
groove part is provided with a bearing housing for shaft-supporting
a sleeve bearing elongated for rotationally supporting the rotating
shaft, and the bearing housing is provided by protruding integrally
with the body part in the central part where the groove part is
provided, and thus the fan motor not only prevents the axial
deviation of the sleeve bearing, but also solves the problem of an
impact-loaded friction joint between the sleeve bearing and the
rotating shaft, which is generated during rotation, to increase
operation life, and to facilitate easy quality control.
Description of the Related Art
[0003] The fan motor generally includes a motor that converts
electrical energy into mechanical energy, such as rotational force,
and the fan motor may classified into an outer rotor type fan
motor, an inner rotor type fan motor, and a flat type fan motor,
depending on whether a rotor is disposed outside or inside a
stator. Also, the fan motor has a structure in which a magnet and a
coil are arranged in a vertical direction, and the electromagnetic
force flows sequentially to an edge part of the coil so that the
magnet is rotated by the electromagnetic force.
[0004] The above mentioned fan motor removes a brush and a
commutator from a direct current (DC) motor, is provided with a
multipole magnet rotor, and employs a brushless motor that
generates a rotating magnetic field by providing a driving coil at
a position around the magnet rotor so as to drive the magnet
rotor.
[0005] The brushless fan motor uses a sleeve bearing that is
elongated to rotationally support the rotating shaft in order to
smoothly rotate the rotating shaft of the motor. However, the fan
motor using such a sleeve bearing has the problems in that the
sleeve bearing may be separated or an intermetallic friction joint
may occur between the sleeve bearing and the rotating shaft when
the motor is driven.
[0006] Regarding the brushless fan motor as described above, Korean
Patent No. 10-1828065 and Korean Patent Application Publication No.
10-2018-0125132 are proposed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0007] The present invention has been devised and developed to
solve the problems of the related art as described above, and an
objective thereof is to provide a fan motor and an electronic
device including the same, the fan motor including: a stator part
including a coil and a stator yoke provided at a lower part of the
coil; a rotor part including a magnet spaced apart from an upper
surface of the stator yoke and a back yoke tightly provided on the
upper surface of the magnet; a fan member including a rotating
shaft which rotates to become a rotation center of the rotor part,
and a plurality of impellers to which the magnet is fixedly coupled
on inner circumferential surfaces of the impellers; a body part
accommodating the stator part; and a cover part having an intake
hole and an exhaust hole, and provided at an upper end part of the
body part to accommodate the plurality of impellers, wherein the
stator yoke is seated in a groove part provided in the bottom
surface of the body part as a plate-shaped member, the groove part
is provided with a bearing housing for shaft-supporting the sleeve
bearing elongated for rotationally supporting the rotating shaft,
and the bearing housing is provided by protruding integrally with
the body part in the central part where the groove part is
provided, and thus the present invention not only prevents the
axial deviation of a sleeve bearing, but also solves the problem of
the impact-loaded friction joint between the sleeve bearing and the
rotating shaft, which is generated during rotation, to increase
operation life, and to facilitate easy quality control.
[0008] In order to achieve the objective of the present invention,
there is provided a fan motor including: a stator part including a
coil and a stator yoke provided at a lower part of the coil; a
rotor part including a magnet spaced apart from an upper surface of
the stator yoke and a back yoke tightly provided on an upper
surface of the magnet; a fan member including a rotating shaft
which rotates to become a rotation center of the rotor part, and a
plurality of impellers to which the magnet is fixedly coupled on
inner circumferential surfaces of the impellers; a body part
accommodating the stator part; and a cover part having an intake
hole and an exhaust hole, and provided at an upper end part of the
body part to accommodate the plurality of impellers, wherein the
stator yoke is seated in a groove part provided in a bottom surface
of the body part as a plate-shaped member, the groove part is
provided with a bearing housing for shaft-supporting a sleeve
bearing elongated for rotationally supporting the rotating shaft,
and the bearing housing is provided by protruding integrally with
the body part in a central part where the groove part is
provided.
[0009] In addition, in the present invention, a circuit board for
driving the stator part may be disposed at a position between the
stator yoke and the magnet.
[0010] In addition, in the present invention, an end part of the
bearing housing may be provided with a bearing support part
provided as an inner circumferential surface of the bearing housing
to prevent the sleeve bearing from separation.
[0011] In addition, in the present invention, the bearing support
part may prevent a bearing from separation by fixing the bearing
through insert injection molding, at least one caulking, or heat
welding.
[0012] In addition, in the present invention, the fan motor may
further include a separation prevention member provided at a
position between the bearing support and the bearing.
[0013] In addition, in the present invention, the bearing housing
may be provided with a stopper part for matching centers of gravity
of the rotor part and the sleeve bearing.
[0014] In addition, in the present invention, the bearing housing
may be simultaneously accommodated inside the stator part, inside
the rotor part, and inside the circuit board.
[0015] In addition, in the present invention, the stator yoke may
be provided at a position in the groove part of the body part, and
is fixed by insert injection molding or heat welding.
[0016] In addition, in the present invention, the stator yoke may
have a polygonal shape.
[0017] In addition, in the present invention, the coil of the
stator part may be a hollow coil, having a square shape.
[0018] In addition, in the present invention, an electric device
includes a fan motor including the above configuration.
[0019] The fan motor according to the present invention is
effective in that the fan motor includes: a stator part including a
coil and a stator yoke provided at a lower part of the coil; the
rotor part including a magnet spaced apart from an upper surface of
a stator yoke and a back yoke tightly provided on the upper surface
of the magnet; a fan member including a rotating shaft which
rotates to become a rotation center of the rotor part, and a
plurality of impellers to which the magnet is fixedly coupled on
inner circumferential surfaces of the impellers; a body part
accommodating the stator part; and a cover part having an intake
hole and an exhaust hole, and provided at an upper end part of the
body part to accommodate the plurality of impellers, wherein the
stator yoke is seated in a groove part provided in the bottom
surface of the body part as a plate-shaped member, the groove part
is provided with a bearing housing for shaft-supporting the sleeve
bearing elongated for rotationally supporting the rotating shaft,
and the bearing housing is provided by protruding integrally with
the body part in the central part where the groove part is
provided, and thus the fan motor not only prevents the axial
deviation of a sleeve bearing, but also solves the problem of the
impact-loaded friction joint between the sleeve bearing and the
rotating shaft, which is generated during rotation, to increase
operation life, and to facilitate easy quality control.
[0020] In addition, the present invention reduces the lengths of
the rotating shaft and of the sleeve bearing to match the center of
gravity with the fan member, and changes a production method of the
bearing support part from the press to the injection molding.
Accordingly, the present invention suppresses occurrence of the
impact-loaded friction joint between the sleeve bearing and the
rotating shaft, which is generated when the motor rotates, thereby
not only increasing the operation life, but also facilitating
quality control.
[0021] In addition, the present invention provides the stator yoke
in a polygon shape so that each vertex of the polygon of the stator
yoke is coincident with the center point of each of the N pole and
the S pole of the multipole magnetized magnet. Therefore, the
starting position of the rotor part is determined, so it is
possible to eliminate the magnet for sensing.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0022] FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a fan motor
according to the present invention.
[0023] FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a state in which the fan
motor is a completed assembly according to the present
invention.
[0024] FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 2.
[0025] FIG. 4 is a detailed cross-sectional view around the fan
member in the fan motor according to the present invention.
[0026] FIG. 5A is an exploded view of the fan member, and FIG. 5B
is a perspective view of the fan member which is a completed
assembly.
[0027] FIG. 6 is a coupled perspective view of the fan member and
the body part in the present invention.
[0028] FIG. 7 is a detailed view of the body part.
[0029] FIG. 8 is a partial detail view of the body part.
[0030] FIG. 9A is a view showing a state without caulking on the
upper part of a sleeve bearing, and FIG. 9B is a view showing a
state with caulking on the upper part of the sleeve bearing.
[0031] FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 9B.
[0032] FIG. 11 is a view showing another exemplary embodiment for
preventing the sleeve bearing from separation.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0033] The present invention relates to a fan motor that is applied
to a kind of sensor module that detects temperature, humidity, and
a dust turbidity state of indoor air of a vehicle, and further
operates to control driving of an air cleaner. Hereinafter, the fan
motor will be described in detail with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
[0034] As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the fan motor according to the
present invention includes: a cover part 10 having an intake hole
11 and an exhaust hole 12; a fan member 20 accommodated in a fan
member accommodating part 13 provided inside the cover part 10 to
include a rotating shaft 32 that rotates to become the rotation
center of a rotor part, and provided with the plurality of
impellers to which a magnet 33 is fixedly coupled on the inner
circumferential surfaces of the impellers 22; a stator part
including a coil 51 wound around a driving coil and a stator yoke
52 disposed at a position below the coil 51; the rotor part
including the magnet 33 spaced apart from an upper surface of the
stator yoke 52, and a back yoke 31 tightly provided on the upper
surface of the magnet 33; a circuit board 40 generating driving
power and a control signal to the coil 51 to drive the stator part;
and a body part 70 provided at a lower part of the cover part 10 to
accommodate the stator part.
[0035] As shown in FIG. 2, the cover part 10 is provided with the
intake hole 11 and the exhaust hole 12 to help intake and exhaust
air through a swirl chamber when the rotor part rotates.
[0036] As shown in FIGS. 5A and 5B, the fan member 20 includes: a
fan member body 21 having an accommodating space 24 formed at a
lower part thereof, in which the back yoke 31 and the magnet 33 are
fixedly coupled to the accommodating space 24; a plurality of
impellers 22 integrally provided on an upper part of the fan member
body 21; and a rotating shaft coupling part 23 fixedly coupled to
an upper end part of the rotating shaft 32.
[0037] The stator part is composed of the coil 51 wound around the
driving coil and the stator yoke 52 provided at a lower part of the
coil 51 and others. Without having a separate bobbin, the coil 51
practically has a rectangular shape instead of a circular shape in
order to use the electromagnetic force generated from the edge part
of the coil 51 when power is applied to a hollow coil. The hollow
coil is provided on the lower part surface of a through part of the
circuit board 40, and is disposed between the stator yoke 52 and
the circuit board 40.
[0038] The rotor part is composed of the magnet 33 spaced apart
from an upper surface of the stator yoke 52, and the back yoke 31
tightly provided on the upper surface of the magnet 33. The rotor
part has a structure in which the fan member 20 fixedly coupled to
the upper end of the rotating shaft 32 rotates in accordance with
the rotating shaft rotating when driving power is supplied to the
stator part.
[0039] A cap-shaped bearing housing 60 capable of accommodating a
sleeve bearing 53 seated on the upper part of the body part 70 is
integrally protruded from the body part 70 and, particularly from
the central part of a groove part in which the stator yoke 52 is
accommodated. The flat plate-shaped stator yoke 52 is mounted on
the bottom of the bearing housing 60 so as to be integrally
provided at the bottom of the body part 70 by means of insert
injection molding or heat welding.
[0040] As shown in FIGS. 8 to 10 with respect to the end part of
the bearing housing 60, an incised V-shape bearing support part is
provided as an inner circumferential surface of the bearing housing
in order to prevent the sleeve bearing 53 from separation. The
bearing support part 62 prevents the press-fitted sleeve bearing 53
from separation, by way of fixing the sleeve bearing 53 through the
insert injection molding, forming at least one caulking part 63 in
which a part of the inner circumferential surface is cut inward, or
fixing the upper end of the sleeve bearing 53 by the heat
welding.
[0041] In addition, as shown in FIG. 11, in order to reduce the gap
between the upper surface of the sleeve bearing 53 and the bearing
support part 62, a separation prevention member 65 such as a washer
may be further provided between the bearing support part 62 and the
sleeve bearing 53. In this case, the bearing support part 62 may be
fixed by the insert injection molding, caulking, or the heat
welding to further prevent the sleeve bearing 53 from
separation.
[0042] The centers of gravity of the rotor part and of the sleeve
bearing 53 may be matched by reducing the lengths of the rotating
shaft 32 and of the sleeve bearing 53 so as to reduce shaking
during the rotation of the rotating shaft 32, thereby reducing the
friction joint. In addition, the material of the bearing support
part 62 may be changed to plastic injection material so as to
reduce the friction joint between the rotating shaft 32 and the
sleeve bearing 53. In order to match the centers of gravity of the
rotor part and the sleeve bearing 53 as described above, a mounting
height of the sleeve bearing 53 is needed to be limited. Therefore,
a stopper part 64 which limits the mounting height of the sleeve
bearing 53 is provided in the bearing housing 60. In other words,
the present invention is devised such that the centers of gravity
of the rotor part and the sleeve bearing 53 is checked in 3D
stereoscopic way, so that one end part out of two end parts inside
the bearing housing plays a role as a stopper on the actual
product. By reducing the lengths of the rotating shaft 32 and of
the sleeve bearing 53 as described above to match the centers of
gravity of the rotor part and the sleeve bearing 53, and by
changing a production method of the bearing support part 62 to the
injection molding, there is an effect that the friction joint may
be maximally reduced in comparison with the conventional structure
supporting the rotating shaft 32 and the sleeve bearing 53 long in
the vertical direction. As an example, the stopper part 64 is
experimentally provided at a position of 1 mm.+-.0.05 from the
lower end part of the rotating shaft 32. In this case, the sleeve
bearing 53 practically has a length of 5 mm.+-.0.1.
[0043] As shown in FIG. 6, the bearing housing 60 is simultaneously
accommodated inside the stator part, inside the rotor part, and
inside the circuit board 40.
[0044] In addition, the sleeve bearing 53 is mounted so that the
centers of gravity of the sleeve bearing 53 and the rotor part
having the fan member 20 coincide with each other. Accordingly, the
sleeve bearing 53 in the bearing housing 60 is provided to be
accommodated in the fan member 20.
[0045] The stator yoke 52, which is a plate-shape member, as shown
in FIGS. 7 and 8, is seated in the groove part 72 provided in the
bottom surface 71 of the body part 70. The groove part 72 is
provided with the bearing housing 60 for axially supporting the
elongated sleeve bearing 53 rotationally supporting the rotating
shaft 32. The bearing housing 60 protrudes integrally with the body
part 70 at a central part in which the groove part 72 is provided.
The stator yoke 53 is practically provided in the groove part 72 of
the body part 70 to be fixed by insert injection molding or heat
welding.
[0046] In addition, it is assumed that the stator yoke 52 has a
polygonal shape. By providing the stator yoke 52 in the polygon
shape, each vertex of the polygon of the stator yoke 52 coincides
with the center point of each N pole and S pole of the multipole
magnetized magnet 33. Consequently, the starting position of the
rotor part is determined, so it is possible to eliminate the magnet
for sensing.
[0047] Although the fan motor applied to the sensor module for the
vehicle is described above, the present invention is also
applicable to the electronic device to which the fan motor having
the above structure is applied.
[0048] In addition, as described above, the present invention has
been described with reference to the practical exemplary
embodiments. However, those skilled in the art will appreciate that
various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible,
without departing from the scope and spirit of the present
invention as disclosed in the accompanying claims.
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