Patent ID: 9667123
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H01H,H02K

Claim:
1. An electric motor for driving a motor vehicle component, the electric motor comprising: a stator; a rotor mounted rotatably relative to said stator; and an electronics system having a plastic over-mold, a punched grid covered by said plastic over-mold and a current path conducting a motor current, said current path having a thermal fuse, two current path ends lying in a same plane and spaced apart from one another forming an interruption point being bridged by said thermal fuse, said thermal fuse having a spring-loaded contact bridge, said spring-loaded contact bridge being held pivotably about a pivot axis extending perpendicularly to a plane in which said interruption point lies, said thermal fuse having a spring element with a first spring leg and a second spring leg extending at right angles to said first spring leg, said spring-loaded contact bridge being associated with said spring element, said spring-loaded contact bridge, when said thermal fuse trips, pivots in a manner of a combined rotary and shearing movement in a plane of the interruption point, as a result of a spring return force of said spring element.