Brushless motor

• US 5,469,005 A
• Filed: 04/13/1994
• Issued: 11/21/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sankyo Seiki Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Nidec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sankyo Seiki Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Nidec Corporation)
• Inventors: Asama, Kiichi, Ashibe, Hiroo
• Primary Examiner(s): LaBalle, Clayton E.
• Application Number:
  US08/227,114
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• Field of Search: 310/67 R, 310/68 B, 310/193, 310/254, 310/DIG. 3, 310/DIG. 6, 360/98.07, 360/99.04, 360/99.08
• US Class Current: 310/68.00B
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 29/03 with a magnetic circuit specially adapted for avoiding torque ripples or self-starting problems
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 29/08 using magnetic effect devices, e.g. Hall-plates, magneto-resistors H02K29/12 takes precedence

Abstract

A brushless motor comprises a rotor, a driving magnet which is rotated integrally with the rotor and a stator core disposed so as to oppose the driving magnet and being wound therearound with a coil. The stator core has salient poles with umbrella portions except for notched portions thereof. A magnetic sensor is disposed in the vicinity of the stator core in a first notched portion prepared by partly removing two corresponding adjacent salient-pole umbrella portions of the stator core for detecting a magnetic pole of the driving magnet. A second notched portion is formed by partly removing two corresponding adjacent salient-pole umbrella portions in a zone of the whole circumferential area of the stator core. The second notched portion is magnetically balanced with the first notched portion.

Claims

1. A brushless motor comprising:

a rotor;

a driving magnet which is rotated integrally with said rotor;

a stator core disposed so as to oppose said driving magnet and being wound therearound with a coil, said stator core having salient poles with umbrella portions except for notched portions thereof;

a magnetic sensor disposed in the vicinity of said stator core in a first notched portion prepared by partly removing two corresponding adjacent salient-pole umbrella portions of said stator core for detecting a magnetic pole of the driving magnet; and

a second notched portion being formed by partly removing two corresponding adjacent salient-pole umbrella portions in a zone of the whole circumferential area of said stator core, said second notched portion being magnetically balanced with said first notched portion.

2. A brushless motor according to claim 1, wherein, when the number of salient poles of said stator core is 3 m≧

12 (m is an integer which is not less than

     4), said second notched portions are formed at a zone deviated 180°

from the zone where said first notched portions are formed.

3. A brushless motor according to claim 1, wherein, when the number of salient poles of said stator core is 3 m≧

6 (m is an integer which is not less than

     2), said second notched portion is formed at two zones, each arranged 120°

from the zone where the first notched portion is formed.

4. A brushless motor according to claim 1, wherein, when the number of salient poles of said stator core is 6 n≧

6 (n is an integer which is not less than

     1), a notched portion prepared by partly cutting away two corresponding adjacent salient-pole umbrella portions of said stator core is formed with respect to every second open slot existing between two corresponding adjacent salient poles, said magnetic sensor being disposed in said notched portion.