Outboard Marine Corporation

Chinh D Nguyen

Christopher R Irgens

Philip D McDowell

James Bonifield

A method of constructing a magnetic flux gap comprising fabricating a first portion from a material having low reluctance and so as to provide an end surface, and a cylindrical inner surface having a diameter, fabricating a second portion from a material having high reluctance and so as to provide axially spaced first and second end surfaces, and a cylindrical inner surface having a diameter greater than the diameter of said cylindrical inner surface of said first portion, fabricating a third portion from a material having low reluctance and so as to provide an end surface, and a cylindrical inner surface having a diameter substantially equal to the diameter of said cylindrical inner surface of said first portion, fixing together the first and second portions with the first end surface of the second portion in axially abutting adjacent relation to the end surface of the first portion and with said cylindrical inner surfaces in concentric relation, fixing together the second and third portions with the second end surface of the second portion in axially abutting adjacent relation to the end surface of the third portion and with said cylindrical inner surfaces in concentric relation, whereby to define a magnetic flux gap radially inwardly of the cylindrical surface of the second portion.

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Milwaukee, WI, United States of America

Chinh D Nguyen