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Granted Patent B2
US 10,734,851 · App. 15/914,310 · Granted Aug 4, 2020

Outer rotor type brushless motor

Inventors: Akio Ando (Yonago, JP); Hirotaka Sato (Oda, JP); Toshiyuki Nishikata (Yonago, JP)
Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
H02K1/146H02K1/187H02K21/222H02K7/09H02K21/22
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Patent No.
US 10,734,851
App. No.
15/914,310
Granted
Aug 4, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A motor includes a rotor frame; a shaft; first and second rotor magnets that are coupled with the shaft, formed separately, and spaced apart in an axial direction of the shaft; a stator portion having a stator core, a winding around the stator core, and a plurality of first salient pole portions; a torque holding portion facing the rotor magnets in a radial direction, being arranged between the rotor frame and the stator portion in the axial direction of the shaft, and having a plurality of second salient pole portions; and a circuit board arranged, in the axial direction of the shaft, on a side of the stator portion opposite the rotor frame. An electronic component is arranged at the circuit board.

Claims (39)

1. A motor, comprising:

a rotor frame;

a shaft;

first and second rotor magnets that are coupled with the rotor frame, formed separately, and spaced apart in an axial direction of the shaft;

a stator portion having a stator core, a winding around the stator core, and a plurality of first salient pole portions;

a torque holding portion facing the second rotor magnet in a radial direction, being arranged between the rotor frame and the stator portion in the axial direction of the shaft, and having a plurality of second salient pole portions; and

a circuit board arranged, in the axial direction of the shaft, on a side of the stator portion opposite the rotor frame, wherein:

an electronic component is arranged at the circuit board,

in the radial direction, the first rotor magnet faces the first salient pole portions and the second rotor magnet faces the second salient pole portions,

the first salient pole portions differ in number from poles of the first rotor magnet,

the number of the second salient pole portions is an integral multiple of the number of poles of the second rotor magnet, and

a number of the first salient pole portions is smaller than a number of the second salient pole portions,

each of the plurality of second salient pole portions has a bent tip portion, and

a circuit board faces the first rotor magnet in the axial direction of the shaft.

2. The motor according to claim 1 , comprising:

a bearing housing rotatably supporting the shaft, wherein:

the stator portion is provided at an outer circumference of the bearing housing,

insulation of the stator core surrounds each of the first salient pole portions, and

the winding is around the first salient pole portions and the insulation.

3. The motor according to claim 1 , comprising a winding around each of the second salient pole portions.

4. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein

the stator portion and the torque holding portion are formed with different materials.

5. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein

widths of the plurality of second salient pole portions are larger than widths of intervals between adjacent two second salient pole portions in a circumferential direction, and

each of the plurality of second salient pole portions faces adjacent two magnetic poles of the second rotor magnet in a radial direction.

6. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein

widths of the plurality of second salient pole portions are larger than widths of intervals between adjacent two second salient pole portions in a circumferential direction, and

each of the plurality of second salient pole portions faces adjacent three magnetic poles of the second rotor magnet in a radial direction.

7. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein

the second rotor magnet includes first magnetic poles and second magnetic poles in a circumferential direction, and

the plurality of second salient pole portions face the first magnetic poles of the second rotor magnet in a radial direction, and

intervals between adjacent two second salient pole portions face the second magnetic poles of the second rotor magnet in a radial direction.

8. The motor according to claim 1 , wherein

the second rotor magnet includes first magnetic poles and second magnetic poles in a circumferential direction, and

two second salient pole portions of the plurality of second salient pole portions face the first magnetic poles of the second rotor magnet in a radial direction, and

other two second salient pole portions of the plurality of second salient pole portions face the second magnetic poles of the second rotor magnet in a radial direction.

9. The motor according to claim 8 , wherein

the two second salient pole portions of the plurality of second salient pole portions are arranged on first opposite sides of the shaft, and

the other two second salient pole portions of the plurality of second salient pole portions are arranged on second opposite sides of the shaft.

Priority Claims (2)
JP 2013-200494 · Sep 26, 2013 · national
JP 2014-123010 · Jun 16, 2014 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 14479580 · Sep 8, 2014
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