Eaton Corporation

John Laskowsky

Jian Luo

Maria Hernandez

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.

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Redondo Beach, CA, United States of America

John Laskowsky