Patent ID: 6445098
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: F04D,H02K

Abstract:
A cup for separating a wet side from a dry side in an electric motor and for enclosing a rotor of the electric motor in a motor/pump assembly, said cup being composed at least predominantly of a synthetic resin material and receiving two bearings for journaling a shaft of the motor, said cup having a bottom formed with a seat for one of said bearings and provided with means for retaining said one of said bearings form-fittingly in said seat, axially, radially and rotationally fast, and so that said one of said bearings can be snapped into said seat and into said bottom at an end of said cup remote from a ramp of said assembly, said seat being provided with at least one elastic detent arm extending axially toward said pump and radially deflectable upon insertion of said one of said bearings into said seat, said detent arm having a radially-inwardly directed projection engageable form-fittingly behind said one of said bearings, a plurality of axially extending centering elements formed on said bottom and defining said seat for radially centering said one of said bearings in said seat, one of said bearings being formed with a notch form fittingly receiving said projection.