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Unidirectional brushless motor

US4804873A · kind A · utility

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7Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateAug 6, 1987
Grant dateFeb 14, 1989
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Expiry dateAug 6, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02K29/08
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An inexpensive brushless motor including a single position detecting element can start itself and can rotate smoothly with good efficiency and reduced noise. The motor comprises a stator core having T-shaped radial stator poles with driving coils wound on all or some of the stator poles. A field magnet having driving alternate N and S magnetic pole zones is mounted for rotation in an opposing relationship to circumferential faces of the stator poles of the stator core. A cogging generating magnetic plate is located in an opposing relationship below the field magnet and has a cutaway portion formed therein which has a suitable angular width such that the magnetic plate may generate a cogging, to move the field magnet by attraction therebetween to a position other than any dead point, and from which the field magnet can start itself. The single position-detecting element is located such that it may detect no dead point upon starting of the motor.

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