Brushless D.C. motor having alternating wider and narrower pole shoes

• US 4,704,567 A
• Filed: 09/09/1986
• Issued: 11/03/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Asahi Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Asahi Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Yasuo, Kawamoto, Tetsuo, Motohashi, Ryo, Taniguchi, Naohiro, Takegawa, Katsumi, Nagai, Masato
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoop, Jr., William M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): RO, BENTSU
• Application Number:
  US06/905,232
• Time in Patent Office: 420 Days
• Field of Search: 318/138, 318/254, 318/439, 310/49 R, 310/67 R, 310/68 R, 310/156, 310/185, 310/188, 310/216, 310/218, 310/268
• US Class Current: 318/400.41
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 29/08 using magnetic effect devices, e.g. Hall-plates, magneto-resistors H02K29/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/22 in a selected direction of rotation

Abstract

A brushless D.C. motor wherein one of projected stator poles positioned to be mutually equally spaced in mechanical angle is made sufficiently smaller than the other as partly cut off at circumferentially expanding pole tooth part, the stator poles being respectively polarized depending on controllably varied direction of direct current to coils on the poles by means of a rotor position detecting Hall element which detects the polarity at a predetermined position of the rotor, for allowing the rotor to self-start constantly in one direction with a remarkably increased starting torque.

Claims

1. A self-starting brushless DC motor comprising a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation and including a permanent magnet magnetized to have circumferentially alternately opposite rotor poles;

a stator provided with projecting poles corresponding in number to said rotor poles;

coils wound on said projecting poles, said projecting poles each including a generally radially extending base means and a circumferentially extending shoe means extending circumferentially from a free end of said base means, said base means of said projecting poles being spaced apart circumferentially equidistantly, said circumferentially extending shoe means of said projecting poles being of alternately wider and narrower circumferential width and formed of magnetizable material, said coils being connected to alternately excite the wider and narrower shoe means in opposite polarities;

a Hall effect element opposed to said rotor for detecting the polarity of one of the rotor poles at a predetermined position and providing a control signal dependent on said polarity detected; and

means responsive to said control signal for supplying a direct current of a predetermined direction to the coils for said excitation;

said narrower shoe means extending in only one circumferential direction from said free end of its associated base portion to enable the rotor to self-start in one direction with an enhanced starting torque.

2. A motor according to claim 1, wherein said narrower pole shoe means of said stator have a circumferential width of less than 50% of said wider pole shoe means.

3. A motor according to claim 1, wherein said alternately opposite rotor poles of said permanent magnet have deviated peak points of magnetization distribution in their magnetized surfaces, said deviation being in a direction opposite to the rotary direction of the rotor.

4. A motor according to claim 3, wherein said deviation of said peak magnetization-distribution points is set to be substantially more than 40 degrees in the electric angle.

5. A motor according to claim 1, wherein a member of non-magnetizable material extends circumferentially from said free end of said base portion carrying said narrower shoe means, said member extending in a circumferential direction opposite that in which said narrower shoe means extends.