Patent ID: 7193349

Claim:
An electric motor for activating functional equipment in a vehicle comprising: a rotor shaft carrying a commutator co-operating with at least two conductive brushes; a printed circuit card that defines a plane; and at least two brush supports that each house one of the at least two conductive brushes and are fixed to the printed circuit card, wherein each of the at least two brush supports forms a casing containing one of the at least two conductive brushes, wherein one wall of each of the casings is contiguous with the printed circuit card, wherein the one wall of each of the casings has at least one first tab that bears against the printed circuit card without passing through the printed circuit card, and the at least one first tab is located entirely on one side of the plane defined by the printed circuit card, and wherein the one wall of each of the casings has a second tab that is transverse to the at least one first tab and that passes through the printed circuit card to position and hold the casings on the printed circuit card.