Eaton Corporation

Jian Luo

David Curtis Turner

Charles A Detweiler

Maria Hernandez

John Laskowsky

A brushless DC permanent magnet motor having a step skewed rotor including a rotor shaft having a portion having a substantially uniform cross sectional configuration defined by N planar sides of substantially equal length and width wherein N is equal to the number of poles of the motor, first and second annular sets of N number of substantially identically shaped bread loaf magnets one of which is attached to each of the N planar sides of the rotor shaft wherein the magnets of the first set have their orientation reversed with respect to the magnets of the second set and the magnets of the first set are offset or skewed by a predetermined skew angle from the magnets of the second set of magnets to form a stepped skewed rotor.

Brushless DC motor with stepped skewed rotor

A permanent magnet D.C. torque motor has the stator mounted in cantilever from a base and nested in a cup-shaped rotor journalled for rotation on the base. The permanent magnets are disposed about the inner periphery of the rotor. The stator core has a plurality of radially outwardly directed webs with coils therearound and may be formed integrally as one-piece or laminated. The pole segments may be integrally formed with the web or attached as separate members. The pole segments have truncated cylindrical pole shoe surfaces forming radial air gaps with the rotor magnets. The pole segments extend axially and transversely beyond the webs. The axial pole segment extensions provide increased total flux for a given motor volume without an increase in ampere turns of electrical energization. The motor of the present invention is particularly suitable as an engine air throttle actuator.

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