US 11,699,938 B2
Guiding element for an electric motor
Helmut Schneider, Zimmern-Floezlingen (DE); and Fabian Sekinger, Eschbronn-Mariazell (DE)
Assigned to Minebea Mitsumi, Inc., Nagano (JP)
Filed by Minebea Mitsumi Inc., Nagano (JP)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/388,288.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 120 250.4 (DE), filed on Jul. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0037959 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H02K 7/12 (2006.01); H02K 11/215 (2016.01); H02K 7/116 (2006.01)
CPC H02K 7/12 (2013.01) [H02K 7/116 (2013.01); H02K 11/215 (2016.01); H02K 2211/03 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A guiding element for use in an electric motor, the guiding element comprising:
a guide for a rotatable element of the electric motor adapted to radially guide the rotatable element relative to a rotary axis;
a centering device adapted to align and/or fix a sensor holding device in the electric motor relative to the guiding element wherein the centering device comprises a fixing element adapted to engage a counterpart on the sensor holding device to position and/or fix the sensor holding device relative to the guiding element, said fixing element includes two snap hooks to embrace a side surface of the sensor holding device and one or both of at least a detent pin to snap-engage an opening in the sensor holding device and a press-fit pin to be pressed into an opening or into a recess in the sensor holding device; and
a fixing device adapted to fix the guiding element to a housing of the electric motor.