Electronically commutated motor

US6097129A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Papst Motoren GmbH & Co KG · DE

Inventors

• Patrick Furtwangler · Schonach, DE
• Hermann Rappenecker · Vöhrenbach, DE
• Harald Reich · St. Georgen, DE
• Gabor Szondi · Königsfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 1999
• Grant date: Aug 1, 2000
• Expiry date: Mar 19, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S310/03
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An electronically commutated external rotor motor has an external rotor having a cup-shaped housing and a radially magnetized permanent magnet connected in the cup-shaped housing. An interior stator is positioned in the cup-shaped housing. The interior stator has a laminated core having grooves. Windings are provided within the grooves. The windings have first end turns proximal to a bottom of the cup-shaped housing and second end turns positioned distal to the bottom. The first and second end turns electrically connect the windings to one another. The permanent magnet has an end face remote from the bottom of the cup-shaped housing. At least one galvano-magnetic rotor position sensor is arranged opposite the end face of the permanent magnet so as to be located within a magnetic leakage of the permanent magnet and within a magnetic leakage of the interior stator. The at least one rotor position sensor is designed to control current within at least a portion of the windings. A magnetic leakage flux concentrator is arranged at the interior stator at the second end turns at a side of the second end turns facing away from the laminated core and positioned at least within an angular are…