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US20210389647A1 US17/461,375 US202117461375A US2021389647A1 US 20210389647 A1 US20210389647 A1 US 20210389647A1 US 202117461375 A US202117461375 A US 202117461375A US 2021389647 A1 US2021389647 A1 US 2021389647A1
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    • F16M—FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16M—FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS
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  • the present disclosure relates to a motor, a gimbal having the motor and an image capturing device having the gimbal.
  • An image capturing device generally comprises a gimbal and an image capturing apparatus carried on the gimbal.
  • the gimbal is configured to fix the image capturing device, freely adjust an attitude of the image capturing apparatus (e.g., changing an elevation and/or orientation of the image capturing apparatus) and stably maintain the image capturing apparatus at a determined attitude to achieve a stable, smooth and multi-angle image capturing.
  • the image capturing apparatus may be a camcorder or a camera.
  • the gimbal comprises a motor.
  • the motor is provided with a stator, a rotor and a sensor for sensing relative positions of the rotor with respect to the stator of the motor.
  • the prior art sensor generally includes an encoder and a potentiometer, where the encoder has a high precision but a large volume, a high cost and a certain frictional resistance, and the potentiometer has a low precision but a greater frictional resistance, which significantly affects the controlling of the gimbal. Both sensors are contact type sensors, resulting in a great frictional resistance and poor electrical contact.
  • An object of the disclosure is to provide a motor having a low frictional resistance, a gimbal having the motor, and an image capturing device having the gimbal.
  • a motor may comprise a stator, a rotator rotatably connected with the stator, and an electrical connecting device for providing an electric signal for the motor.
  • the motor may further comprise a magnet fixed on the rotator, and a Hall angular displacement sensor fixed on the electrical connecting devices and arranged opposite to the magnet. The magnet and the Hall angular displacement sensor may be spaced from each other by the electrical connecting devices.
  • a gimbal may comprise a first rotating member, a second rotating member rotatably connected with the first rotating member, and a motor configured to drive the second rotating member to rotate with respect to the first rotating member.
  • the motor may comprise a stator, a rotator rotatably connected with the stator, and an electrical connecting device for providing an electric signal to the motor.
  • the motor further comprises a magnet fixed on the rotator, and a Hall angular displacement sensor fixed on the electrical connecting device and arranged opposite to the magnet. The magnet and the Hall angular displacement sensor may be spaced from each other by the electrical connecting device.
  • an image capturing device may comprise a gimbal and a payload carried on the gimbal.
  • the gimbal may comprise a first rotating member, a second rotating member rotatably connected with the first rotating member, and a motor configured to drive the second rotating member to rotate with respect to the first rotating member.
  • the motor may comprise a stator, a rotator rotatably connected with the stator, and an electrical connecting device configured to provide an electric signal to the motor.
  • the motor may further comprise a magnet fixed on the rotator, and a Hall angular displacement sensor fixed on the electrical connecting device and arranged opposite to the magnet. The magnet and the Hall angular displacement sensor may be spaced from each other by the device.
  • a method of detecting a positional relationship between the stator and the rotator by a non-contact Hall angular displacement sensor is provided in the present disclosure, which solves the great frictional resistance problem in conventional detection methods.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an image capturing device according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the image capturing device from which the carried payload is removed according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 3 is a sectional view of FIG. 2 along the line.
  • FIG. 4 is a perspective view of FIG. 2 from another angle of view, from which the first rotating member is partially omitted.
  • the image capturing device in embodiments of the present disclosure may be used as an auxiliary device for photographing, image capturing, monitoring and sampling, and can be carried on an air-based vehicle (e.g., a rotor wing aircraft or a fixed wing aircraft), a water-based vehicle (e.g., a submarine or a ship), a road-based vehicle (e.g., an automobile) or a space-based vehicle (e.g., a satellite, a space station, or a spaceship) and the like.
  • the image capturing device may comprise a gimbal and a payload carried on the gimbal.
  • the gimbal may be configured to fix the payload, freely adjust an attitude of the payload (e.g., to change an elevation, an inclination angle and/or an orientation of the payload), and stably maintain the carried payload at a determined attitude.
  • the payload may be an image capturing device such as a camera or a camcorder. Alternatively, the payload may also be a sensor or the like. In this embodiment, the image capturing device may be carried by an aircraft.
  • the payload may be an interchangeable lens digital camera (ILDC), a surveillance camera or the like.
  • ILDC interchangeable lens digital camera
  • an image capturing device 100 may comprise a gimbal 10 and a payload 20 carried on the gimbal 10 .
  • the gimbal 10 comprises a first rotating member 1 , a second rotating member 2 rotatably connected with one end of the first rotating member 1 and being configured to carry the payload 20 , and a motor 30 connecting the first rotating member 1 with the second rotating member 2 .
  • the payload 20 is a camera.
  • the motor 30 is configured to drive the second rotating member 2 to rotate with respect to the first rotating member 1 .
  • the motor 30 comprises a stator 31 fixed on the first rotating member 1 , a rotator 32 rotatably connected with the stator 31 and fixed on the second rotating member 2 , an electrical connecting device 33 fixed on the first rotating member 1 and providing an electric signal to the stator 31 , a magnet 34 fixed on the rotator 32 and a Hall angular displacement sensor 35 fixed on the electrical connecting device 33 and arranged opposite to the magnet 34 .
  • the magnet 34 and the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 may operate together to detect relative positions of the rotator 32 with respect to the stator 31 of the motor 30 .
  • the magnet 34 and the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 are spaced from each other by the electrical connecting device 33 .
  • the rotator 32 comprises a rotating shaft assembly 36 rotatably connected with the stator 31 and a rotor 37 fixed on the rotating shaft assembly 36 .
  • the rotor 37 is received in the second rotating member 2 .
  • the stator 31 is a coil
  • the rotor 37 is a magnet that generates a magnetic force with the stator 31 .
  • the stator 31 may be a magnet
  • the rotor 37 may be a coil.
  • the rotating shaft assembly 36 comprises a rotating shaft 38 , and an upper bearing 381 and a lower bearing 382 sleeved respectively on two ends of the rotating shaft 38 .
  • One end of the rotating shaft 38 is received in the first rotating member 1 , and the other end is received in the second rotating member 2 .
  • the upper bearing 381 is received in the first rotating member 1 .
  • the lower bearing 382 is received in the second rotating member 2 .
  • the rotating shaft assembly 36 rotatably connects the first rotating member 1 with the second rotating member 2 through the rotor 37 and the stator 31 .
  • the magnet 34 is fixed on the rotating shaft 38 and arranged to face the electrical connecting device 33 which is received in the first rotating member 1 .
  • the electrical connecting device 33 may be a printed circuit board (PCB) or a flexible circuit board.
  • the electrical connecting device 33 comprises a first surface 331 and a second surface 332 opposite to the first surface 331 .
  • the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 may be fixed on the first surface 331 , and the magnet 34 is arranged opposite to the second surface 332 , such that the magnet 34 does not come into contact with the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 .
  • the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 senses a positional relationship between the stator 31 and the rotator 32 , the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 has a small volume; therefore the problem of great frictional resistance of conventional detection modes can be solved.
  • the magnet 34 is fixedly connected with the rotator 32
  • the electric connecting devices 33 provided with the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 is fixedly connected with the stator 31 .
  • the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 detects a rotational angle of the rotor 37 with respect to the stator 31 , forming an angular displacement sensing manner which is of a non-contact type but has an effect equivalent to that of an absolute position encoder.
  • the working resistance of the gimbal 10 is effectively reduced, and the response of the gimbal 10 is increased.
  • stator 31 may be fixed directly on the first rotating member 1
  • rotator 32 may be fixed directly on the second rotating member 2 , such that the stator 31 and the rotator 32 may be embedded directly into internal space of the first rotating member 1 and the second rotating member 2 and integrated with the first rotating member 1 and the second rotating member 2 , effectively reducing an overall size of the gimbal 10 .

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A motor assembly includes a stator directly fixed to a first rotating member, a rotator coupled to a second rotating member and rotatably connected with the stator, an electrical connecting device, and a Hall angular displacement sensor disposed on a side of the electrical connecting device. The rotator includes a rotating shaft with two ends. A first end of the rotating shaft is received in the first rotating member and a second end of the rotating shaft is received in the second rotating member. The electrical connecting device is configured to provide power to the motor assembly for driving the second rotating member to rotate with respect to the first rotating member. The Hall angular displacement sensor is configured to detect a positional relationship between the first rotating member and the second rotating member.

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    CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
  • This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 16/692,447, filed on Nov. 22, 2019, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 15/115,422, filed Jul. 29, 2016, now U.S. Pat. No. 10,488,739, which is a National Stage Entry of International Application No. PCT/CN2014/081613, filed Jul. 3, 2014, which claims priority to Chinese Application No. 201410070502.1, filed Feb. 28, 2014, the entire contents of all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
    • TECHNICAL FIELD
  • The present disclosure relates to a motor, a gimbal having the motor and an image capturing device having the gimbal.
    • BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE
  • An image capturing device generally comprises a gimbal and an image capturing apparatus carried on the gimbal. The gimbal is configured to fix the image capturing device, freely adjust an attitude of the image capturing apparatus (e.g., changing an elevation and/or orientation of the image capturing apparatus) and stably maintain the image capturing apparatus at a determined attitude to achieve a stable, smooth and multi-angle image capturing. The image capturing apparatus may be a camcorder or a camera.
  • The gimbal comprises a motor. The motor is provided with a stator, a rotor and a sensor for sensing relative positions of the rotor with respect to the stator of the motor. The prior art sensor generally includes an encoder and a potentiometer, where the encoder has a high precision but a large volume, a high cost and a certain frictional resistance, and the potentiometer has a low precision but a greater frictional resistance, which significantly affects the controlling of the gimbal. Both sensors are contact type sensors, resulting in a great frictional resistance and poor electrical contact.
    • SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE
  • An object of the disclosure is to provide a motor having a low frictional resistance, a gimbal having the motor, and an image capturing device having the gimbal.
  • The aforementioned object may be achieved by various embodiments of the disclosure.
  • In some embodiments, a motor may comprise a stator, a rotator rotatably connected with the stator, and an electrical connecting device for providing an electric signal for the motor. The motor may further comprise a magnet fixed on the rotator, and a Hall angular displacement sensor fixed on the electrical connecting devices and arranged opposite to the magnet. The magnet and the Hall angular displacement sensor may be spaced from each other by the electrical connecting devices.
  • In some embodiments, a gimbal may comprise a first rotating member, a second rotating member rotatably connected with the first rotating member, and a motor configured to drive the second rotating member to rotate with respect to the first rotating member. The motor may comprise a stator, a rotator rotatably connected with the stator, and an electrical connecting device for providing an electric signal to the motor. The motor further comprises a magnet fixed on the rotator, and a Hall angular displacement sensor fixed on the electrical connecting device and arranged opposite to the magnet. The magnet and the Hall angular displacement sensor may be spaced from each other by the electrical connecting device.
  • In some embodiments, an image capturing device may comprise a gimbal and a payload carried on the gimbal. The gimbal may comprise a first rotating member, a second rotating member rotatably connected with the first rotating member, and a motor configured to drive the second rotating member to rotate with respect to the first rotating member. The motor may comprise a stator, a rotator rotatably connected with the stator, and an electrical connecting device configured to provide an electric signal to the motor. The motor may further comprise a magnet fixed on the rotator, and a Hall angular displacement sensor fixed on the electrical connecting device and arranged opposite to the magnet. The magnet and the Hall angular displacement sensor may be spaced from each other by the device.
  • As compared with the prior art, a method of detecting a positional relationship between the stator and the rotator by a non-contact Hall angular displacement sensor is provided in the present disclosure, which solves the great frictional resistance problem in conventional detection methods.
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  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an image capturing device according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the image capturing device from which the carried payload is removed according to the disclosure.
  • FIG.3 is a sectional view of FIG. 2 along the line.
  • FIG. 4 is a perspective view of FIG. 2 from another angle of view, from which the first rotating member is partially omitted.
    •  DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS
  • The image capturing device in embodiments of the present disclosure may be used as an auxiliary device for photographing, image capturing, monitoring and sampling, and can be carried on an air-based vehicle (e.g., a rotor wing aircraft or a fixed wing aircraft), a water-based vehicle (e.g., a submarine or a ship), a road-based vehicle (e.g., an automobile) or a space-based vehicle (e.g., a satellite, a space station, or a spaceship) and the like. The image capturing device may comprise a gimbal and a payload carried on the gimbal. The gimbal may be configured to fix the payload, freely adjust an attitude of the payload (e.g., to change an elevation, an inclination angle and/or an orientation of the payload), and stably maintain the carried payload at a determined attitude. The payload may be an image capturing device such as a camera or a camcorder. Alternatively, the payload may also be a sensor or the like. In this embodiment, the image capturing device may be carried by an aircraft. The payload may be an interchangeable lens digital camera (ILDC), a surveillance camera or the like. The image capturing device according to the present disclosure will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
  • As illustrated in FIG. 1 to FIG. 4, in some embodiments of the disclosure, an image capturing device 100 may comprise a gimbal 10 and a payload 20 carried on the gimbal 10. The gimbal 10 comprises a first rotating member 1, a second rotating member 2 rotatably connected with one end of the first rotating member 1 and being configured to carry the payload 20, and a motor 30 connecting the first rotating member 1 with the second rotating member 2. In this embodiment, the payload 20 is a camera. The motor 30 is configured to drive the second rotating member 2 to rotate with respect to the first rotating member 1.
  • The motor 30 comprises a stator 31 fixed on the first rotating member 1, a rotator 32 rotatably connected with the stator 31 and fixed on the second rotating member 2, an electrical connecting device 33 fixed on the first rotating member 1 and providing an electric signal to the stator 31, a magnet 34 fixed on the rotator 32 and a Hall angular displacement sensor 35 fixed on the electrical connecting device 33 and arranged opposite to the magnet 34. The magnet 34 and the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 may operate together to detect relative positions of the rotator 32 with respect to the stator 31 of the motor 30. The magnet 34 and the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 are spaced from each other by the electrical connecting device 33.
  • The rotator 32 comprises a rotating shaft assembly 36 rotatably connected with the stator 31 and a rotor 37 fixed on the rotating shaft assembly 36. The rotor 37 is received in the second rotating member 2. In this embodiment, the stator 31 is a coil, and the rotor 37 is a magnet that generates a magnetic force with the stator 31. In an alternative embodiment, the stator 31 may be a magnet, and the rotor 37 may be a coil.
  • The rotating shaft assembly 36 comprises a rotating shaft 38, and an upper bearing 381 and a lower bearing 382 sleeved respectively on two ends of the rotating shaft 38. One end of the rotating shaft 38 is received in the first rotating member 1, and the other end is received in the second rotating member 2. The upper bearing 381 is received in the first rotating member 1. The lower bearing 382 is received in the second rotating member 2. The rotating shaft assembly 36 rotatably connects the first rotating member 1 with the second rotating member 2 through the rotor 37 and the stator 31. The magnet 34 is fixed on the rotating shaft 38 and arranged to face the electrical connecting device 33 which is received in the first rotating member 1.
  • The electrical connecting device 33 may be a printed circuit board (PCB) or a flexible circuit board. The electrical connecting device 33 comprises a first surface 331 and a second surface 332 opposite to the first surface 331. The Hall angular displacement sensor 35 may be fixed on the first surface 331, and the magnet 34 is arranged opposite to the second surface 332, such that the magnet 34 does not come into contact with the Hall angular displacement sensor 35. When the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 senses a positional relationship between the stator 31 and the rotator 32, the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 has a small volume; therefore the problem of great frictional resistance of conventional detection modes can be solved.
  • In some embodiments, in the image capturing device 100, the magnet 34 is fixedly connected with the rotator 32, and the electric connecting devices 33 provided with the Hall angular displacement sensor 35 is fixedly connected with the stator 31. The Hall angular displacement sensor 35 detects a rotational angle of the rotor 37 with respect to the stator 31, forming an angular displacement sensing manner which is of a non-contact type but has an effect equivalent to that of an absolute position encoder. The working resistance of the gimbal 10 is effectively reduced, and the response of the gimbal 10 is increased.
  • Furthermore, the stator 31 may be fixed directly on the first rotating member 1, and the rotator 32 may be fixed directly on the second rotating member 2, such that the stator 31 and the rotator 32 may be embedded directly into internal space of the first rotating member 1 and the second rotating member 2 and integrated with the first rotating member 1 and the second rotating member 2, effectively reducing an overall size of the gimbal 10.
  • The foregoing disclosure is merely illustrative of some embodiments of the disclosure, and the scope of the disclosure is not limited thereto. Any equivalent modifications or variations made by those of ordinary skill in the art according to the disclosure of the invention shall fall into the protection scope as defined in the appended claims.

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What is claimed is:
1. A motor assembly, comprising:
a stator directly fixed to a first rotating member;
a rotator coupled to a second rotating member and rotatably connected with the stator, the rotator including a rotating shaft with two ends, a first end of the rotating shaft being received in the first rotating member and a second end of the rotating shaft being received in the second rotating member;
an electrical connecting device configured to provide power to the motor assembly for driving the second rotating member to rotate with respect to the first rotating member; and
a Hall angular displacement sensor disposed on a side of the electrical connecting device and configured to detect a positional relationship between the first rotating member and the second rotating member.
2. The motor assembly of claim 1, wherein the rotator is directly fixed to the second rotating member.
3. The motor assembly of claim 1, wherein the rotator further includes:
an upper bearing and a lower bearing received in the first rotating member and the second rotating member, respectively.
4. The motor assembly of claim 1, further comprising:
a magnet fixed to the first end of rotating shaft.
5. The motor assembly of claim 1, wherein:
the electrical connecting device includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the second surface facing the first end of the rotating shaft; and
the Hall angular displacement sensor is fixedly arranged on the first surface.
6. The motor assembly of claim 1, wherein the electrical connecting device includes a PCB board or a flexible circuit board.
7. The motor assembly of claim 1, wherein the rotator further includes a rotor disposed at the second end of the rotating shaft, the rotor surrounding at least a portion of the stator.
8. The motor assembly of claim 7, wherein the electrical connecting device is further configured to:
transmit a control signal to control a rotational angle of the rotor with respect to the stator for adjusting the positional relationship between the first rotating member and the second rotating member.
9. A gimbal comprising:
a first rotating member;
a second rotating member; and
a motor configured to drive the second rotating member to rotate with respect to the first rotating member, the motor including:
a stator directly fixed to the first rotating member;
a rotator coupled to the second rotating member and rotatably connected with the stator, the rotator including a rotating shaft with two ends, a first end of the rotating shaft being received in the first rotating member and a second end of the rotating shaft being received in the second rotating member;
an electrical connecting device configured to provide power to the motor for driving the second rotating member to rotate with respect to the first rotating member; and
a Hall angular displacement sensor disposed on a side of the electrical connecting device and configured to detect a positional relationship between the first rotating member and the second rotating member.
10. The gimbal of claim 9, wherein the rotator is directly fixed to the second rotating member.
11. The gimbal of claim 9, wherein the rotator further includes:
an upper bearing and a lower bearing received in the first rotating member and the second rotating member, respectively.
12. The gimbal of claim 9, wherein the motor further includes:
a magnet fixed to the first end of rotating shaft.
13. The gimbal of claim 9, wherein:
the electrical connecting device includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the second surface facing the first end of the rotating shaft; and
the Hall angular displacement sensor is fixedly arranged on the first surface.
14. The gimbal of claim 9, wherein the electrical connecting device includes a PCB board or a flexible circuit board.
15. The gimbal of claim 9, wherein the rotator further includes a rotor disposed at the second end of the rotating shaft, the rotor surrounding at least a portion of the stator.
16. The gimbal of claim 15, wherein the electrical connecting device is further configured to:
transmit a control signal to control a rotational angle of the rotor with respect to the stator for adjusting the positional relationship between the first rotating member and the second rotating member.
17. An image capturing device comprising:
a gimbal; and
a payload carried on the gimbal, wherein the gimbal includes:
a first rotating member;
a second rotating member; and
a motor configured to drive the second rotating member to rotate with respect to the first rotating member, the motor including:
a stator directly fixed to the first rotating member;
a rotator coupled to the second rotating member and rotatably connected with the stator, the rotator including a rotating shaft with two ends, a first end of the rotating shaft being received in the first rotating member and a second end of the rotating shaft being received in the second rotating member;
an electrical connecting device configured to provide power to the motor for driving the second rotating member to rotate with respect to the first rotating member; and
a Hall angular displacement sensor disposed on a side of the electrical connecting device and configured to detect a positional relationship between the first rotating member and the second rotating member.
18. The image capturing device of claim 17, wherein the payload is connected with the second rotating member.
19. The image capturing device of claim 17, wherein the payload is a camera or a sensor.
20. The image capturing device of claim 17, wherein the motor further includes:
a magnet fixed to the first end of rotating shaft.
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