Electric motor

1. A high voltage miniature PMDC motor comprising:

a housing; and

a rotor, the rotor having a shaft, a rotor core fitted to the shaft, a commutator fitted to the shaft adjacent the rotor core, rotor windings wound about poles of the rotor core and terminated on segments of the commutator,

wherein the rotor core has a diameter of 23 mm±3 mm and 12 poles and the commutator is a cylindrical commutator with a diameter of 20 mm or less and 24 segments, and the motor has an output power of more than 25 watts.

2. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the rated output power is 30 watts or more.

3. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the commutator has a diameter of 14 mm.

4. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the rotor core has an axial length of 30 mm or less.

5. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the housing is cylindrical with two diagonally opposed flat sides joined by two arcuate sides, wherein arcuate permanent magnets are located on an inner surface of the arcuate sides.

6. The motor of claim 5 , wherein an outer diameter of the housing measured across the arcuate sides is less than 40 mm.

7. The motor of claim 6 , wherein the length of the brushes is 12 mm±4 mm.

8. The motor of claim 6 , wherein the diameter of the motor housing, measured across the flat surfaces of the housing, is 31 mm±3 mm.

9. The motor of claim 6 , wherein the diameter of the motor housing, measured across the flat surfaces of the housing and including a flux ring, is 31 mm ±3 mm.

10. A vacuum cleaner power brush roller attachment having a brush roller and incorporating the motor of claim 1 , for driving the brush roller.

11. The motor of claim 5 , wherein the permanent magnets are high energy rare earth sintered arcuate magnets.

12. The motor of claim 1 , wherein the motor operates at 10,000 rpm under no load.