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Motor MotorThere is provided a motor including: a rotating member including a first magnet; and a fixed member supporting the rotating member and including a second magnet configuring a magnetic bearing part together with the first magnet, wherein a gap between the first and second magnets is larger than at least one of a contact prevention gap between the rotating member and the fixed member and a clearance between a shaft and a sleeve supporting the shaft.
Browse recent Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd. patents - Suwon, KRInventors: Ju Ho Kim, Shin Young Cheong, Ki Suk WooUSPTO Applicaton #: #20120306304 - Class: 310 905 (USPTO) - 12/06/12 - Class 310 The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20120306304, Motor.
This application claims the priority of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2011-0053961 filed on Jun. 3, 2011, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to a motor, and more particularly, to a motor having improved performance by preventing a damage to a magnet configuring a magnetic bearing part.
A hard disk drive (HDD), an information storage device, reads data stored on a disk or writes data to a disk using a read/write head.
The hard disk drive requires a disk driving device capable of driving the disk. In the disk driving device, a small-sized motor is used.
In the small-sized motor, a fluid dynamic pressure bearing assembly has been used. A shaft, one of a plurality of rotating members of the fluid dynamic pressure bearing assembly, and a sleeve, a fixed member thereof, include oil interposed therebetween, such that the shaft is supported by fluid pressure generated by the oil.
In the motor according to the related art, when a hub, a rotating member, rotates, friction may be generated due to the oil. This friction may increase power consumption in the driving of the motor.
Further, when the motor according to the related art has an external impact applied thereto, a phenomenon in which the shaft contacts the sleeve may be generated. This phenomenon may cause abrasion of the shaft or the sleeve to thereby have an adverse effect on the performance of the motor.
Therefore, in the motor capable of driving the disk of the hard disk drive, research into a technology of significantly reducing power consumption in the driving of the motor and improving durability against external impacts to thereby significantly increase performance and a lifespan of the motor has been urgently demanded.
An aspect of the present invention provides a motor in which power consumption in driving thereof is significantly reduced, durability is improved, and damage to a magnet configuring a bearing is prevented to thereby significantly increase motor performance and lifespan.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a motor including: a rotating member including a first magnet; and a fixed member supporting the rotating member and including a second magnet configuring a magnetic bearing part together with the first magnet, wherein a gap between the first and second magnets is larger than at least one of a contact prevention gap between the rotating member and the fixed member and a clearance between a shaft and a sleeve supporting the shaft.
The contact prevention gap may be formed between the fixed member and a wall part protruding from the rotating member.
The wall part may protrude from a hub rotating together with the shaft.
The wall part may divide a space between the sleeve and a base, and the contact prevention gap may be at least one of the divided spaces.
The wall part may divide a space between a support part supporting an outer peripheral surface of the second magnet and a coupling part including a core coupled thereto, the core including a coil wound therearound, and the contact prevention gap may be at least one of the divided spaces.
The gap between the first and second magnets may be disposed on the same axis as that of the clearance between the shaft and the sleeve or may be disposed inside or outside the clearance between the shaft and the sleeve in a radial direction.
The first and second magnets may be magnetized in an axial direction or the radial direction.
The gap between the first and second magnets may be inclined at a predetermined angle in the axial direction.
At least one of upper surfaces and lower surfaces of the first and second magnets may have the same or a different height.
The motor may further include a fluid dynamic pressure bearing part formed in at least one of the shaft and the sleeve and providing radial dynamic pressure to the shaft by oil filled between the shaft and the sleeve.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a motor including: a shaft provided with a first magnet; a hub coupled to the shaft and rotating together with the shaft; a sleeve supporting the shaft and including a second magnet configuring a magnetic bearing part together with the first magnet; a fluid dynamic pressure bearing part formed in at least one of the shaft and the sleeve; a base including a coupling part protruding upwardly in an axial direction so that the sleeve and a core including a coil wound therearound may be coupled thereto; and a wall part protruding from the hub so as to divide a space between the support part supporting an outer peripheral surface of the second magnet of the sleeve and the coupling part, wherein a gap between the first and second magnets is larger than at least one of a contact prevention gap, which is at least one of the divided spaces, and a clearance between the shaft and the sleeve.
FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing a motor according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic enlarged cross-sectional view showing part A of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a schematic enlarged cross-sectional view showing a modified example of part A of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing a motor according to another embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic enlarged cross-sectional view showing part B of FIG. 4;
FIGS. 6 through 8 are schematic enlarged cross-sectional views showing first through third modified examples of part B of FIG. 4; and
FIGS. 9 and 10 are schematic cross-sectional views showing a position relationship between first and second magnets included in a motor according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, it should be noted that the spirit of the present invention is not limited to the embodiments set forth herein and those skilled in the art and understanding the present invention can easily accomplish retrogressive inventions or other embodiments included in the spirit of the present invention by the addition, modification, and removal of components within the same spirit, but those are construed as being included in the spirit of the present invention.
Further, like reference numerals will be used to designate like components having similar functions throughout the drawings within the scope of the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing a motor according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic enlarged cross-sectional view showing part A of FIG. 1.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, a motor 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a rotating member 100 including a shaft 110, a fixed member 200 supporting rotation of the rotating member 100, and a wall part 125 protruding from the rotating member 100.
Terms with respect to directions will be first defined. As viewed in FIG. 1, an axial direction refers to a vertical direction based on the shaft 110, and an outer diameter or inner diameter direction refers to a direction towards an outer edge of the hub 120 based on the shaft 110 or a direction towards the center of the shaft 110 based on the outer edge of the hub 120.
Meanwhile, the motor 400 according to the embodiment of the present invention may be a motor capable of being used in a recording disk driving device rotating a recoding disk, and the rotating member 100 of the motor 400 means all components except for the fixed member 200.
More specifically, the rotating member 100 may include the shaft 110 including a first magnet 115 and a hub 120 coupled to the shaft 110 to thereby rotate together with the shaft 110.
Here, the first magnet 115 may configure a magnetic bearing part 300 together with a second magnet 215 to be described below, in the motor 400 according to the embodiment of the present invention, and may be functionally a rotating magnet because it is coupled to an outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft 110.
Here, the first magnet 115 may be disposed to face the second magnet 215 coupled to the sleeve 210. Therefore, repulsive force may act between the first and second magnets 115 and 215.
This repulsive force may be force in a radial direction stably supporting rotation of the shaft 110 including the first magnet 115 coupled thereto and prevent the shaft 110 from rotating while being eccentric from the center thereof to thereby improve performance of the motor 400 according to the embodiment of the present invention.
Here, the first magnet 115 may be magnetized in the axial direction as shown in FIG. 1. However, the first magnet 115 is not limited to being magnetized in the above-mentioned direction but may be magnetized in the radial direction.
In addition, the first magnet 115 and the shaft 110 may be bonding coupled to each other by applying an adhesive to at least one of an outer peripheral surface of the shaft 110 and an inner peripheral surface of the first magnet 115 and may be maintained in a non-contact state therebetween by the adhesive.
Further, simultaneously with or separately from the application of the adhesive, the first magnet 115 may also be coupled to the shaft 110 in a press-fitting scheme.
In this case, the inner peripheral surface of the first magnet 115 may have a diameter smaller than that of the outer peripheral surface of the shat 110.
In addition, although not shown, the shaft 110 has an outer peripheral surface formed to be stepped so that it supports a portion of a bottom surface of the first magnet 115 to seat the bottom surface of the first magnet 115 on the stepped portion thereof, whereby the first magnet 115 and the shaft 110 may be more stably coupled to each other.
The hub 120 may be a rotating structure rotatably provided with respect to the fixed member 200 including the sleeve 210 and include an annular ring shaped driving magnet 130 provided on an inner peripheral surface thereof, wherein the annular ring shaped driving magnet 130 corresponds to the core 240 including a coil 230 wound therearound, having a predetermined interval therebetween.
More specifically, the hub 120 may include a first cylindrical wall part 121 fixed to an upper end of the shaft 110, a disk part 122 extended from an end portion of the first cylindrical wall part 121 in the outer diameter direction, and a second cylindrical wall part 123 protruding axially downwardly from an end portion of the disk part 122 in the outer diameter direction.
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Patent InfoApplication # US 20120306304 A1Publish Date 12/06/2012 Document # 13137938 File Date 09/21/2011 USPTO Class 310 905 Other USPTO Classes International Class 02K7/09 Drawings 7 Follow us on Twitter@FreshPatents