Vibration generating stepping motor
Provided is a vibration generating stepping motor, which is ensured for holding a stop position by increasing a detent torque. The pole teeth of one stator yoke of a single-phase stator yoke assembly includes two kinds of pole teeth made different in the outermost side faces in the radial direction, and the pole teeth of the other stator yoke are comprised of two kinds of pole teeth made different in the outermost side faces in the radial direction. The pole teeth of one kind of the aforementioned individual stator yokes are made to have the same shape. The pole teeth of the remaining two kinds not given the same shape are combined and arranged to increase the detent torque.
1 . A vibration generating stepping motor, comprising a single-phase stator yoke assembly comprising a first stator yoke and a second stator yoke,
the first stator yoke comprising first pole teeth and second pole teeth, the first and second pole teeth having different areas of respective outermost side faces in a radial direction of the stepping motor,
the second stator yoke comprising the first pole teeth and third pole teeth having an area of an outermost side surface in the radial direction, the area of the third pole teeth being different from those of the first and second pole teeth, and
the first stator yoke and the second stator yoke are arranged so that the second pole teeth and the third pole teeth are combined so as to shift hold positions to increase a detent torque of the stepping motor.
2 . A vibration generating stepping motor according to claim 1 , wherein the areas of the first to third pole teeth are set by varying at least one of a height in a axial direction and a width in a rotating direction of each of the first to third pole teeth.
3 . A vibration generating stepping motor according to claim 1 , wherein each of the outermost side faces in the radial direction of the first to third pole teeth has a trapezoidal shape.
4 . A vibration generating stepping motor according to claim 3 , wherein an angle of inclination of the trapezoidal shape is common in the first to third pole teeth.
5 . A vibration generating stepping motor according to claim 1 , wherein the second pole teeth and the third pole teeth are provided in combination by one or more arbitrary n-pairs thereof.
6 . A vibration generating stepping motor according to claim 1 , wherein
the first pole teeth are trapezoidal standard pole teeth,
one of the second pole teeth and the third pole teeth are trapezoidal wider pole teeth, the trapezoidal wider pole teeth being as high in the axial direction as the standard pole teeth, wider in the rotating direction than the standard pole teeth, and equal in the angle of inclination of an oblique side to the standard pole teeth,
the other of the second pole teeth and the third pole teeth are trapezoidal narrower and lower pole teeth, the narrower and lower pole teeth being lower in the axial direction than the standard pole teeth, narrower in the rotating direction than the standard pole teeth, and equal in the angle of inclination of an oblique side to the standard pole teeth, and
the first to third pole teeth are arranged to mesh in a comb tooth shape.
7 . A vibration generating stepping motor according to claim 1 wherein a rotor magnet is disposed on a rotor facing the single-phase stator yoke assembly, and the rotor magnet is a ring magnet magnetized at different magnetic poles alternately in the rotating direction.
8 . A vibration generating stepping motor according to claim 7 , wherein the first pole teeth are arranged to have centers thereof conforming to switching positions of NS magnetic poles of the rotor magnet, and
the second pole teeth and the third pole teeth are individually arranged to have centers thereof shifted from the switching positions of the NS magnetic poles by an shift angle to increase the detent torque.
9 . A vibration generating stepping motor according to claim 7 , wherein the ring magnet has a ring-shaped back yoke.
10 . A vibration generating stepping motor according to claim 9 , wherein the back yoke has a recess within a remaining range excepting a range containing the switching
positions of the NS magnetic poles of the rotor magnet and a vicinity thereof.