Nidec Corporation

Jun Nagasawa

Keizo Furukawa

Kazuya Kitaji

Ryosuke Ishida

Nobuyuki Iwashita

An axial fan includes an impeller, a motor, and a housing. The impeller is configured to rotate about a rotation axis extending in a vertical direction; a motor configured to rotationally drive the impeller. The housing is disposed radially outside the impeller and the motor. An inner wall surface of the housing includes a groove recessed radially outward and extending in the vertical direction. At least a first end of the groove in the vertical direction extends to one end of the housing in the vertical direction.

Axial fan and refrigerator

An upper insulator and a lower insulator each include extended portions each extending in a circumferential direction near a radially outer end of a corresponding one of teeth. The teeth are each provided with a coil formed of a conducting wire that is wound around the tooth with the upper insulator and the lower insulator in between. The extended portions of the lower insulator each have a guide portion at an edge on a circumferentially outer and upper side near a region where the conducting wire is led from the upper side toward the lower side when wound into the coil.

Stator of motor having upper and lower insulator

A motor includes a rotating portion with a shaft extending along a rotation axis and a rotor that rotates together with the shaft, a stationary portion with a stator located radially outside of the rotor and a magnetic sensor located above the rotor to detect a rotational position of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core, a rotor magnet located radially outside of the rotor core and under the magnetic sensor, in contact with the rotor core or located opposite to the rotor core with a first gap therebetween. A recessed portion is recessed from each of an upper end surface and an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core. An inner circumferential surface of a lower end portion of the rotor holder is fixed to a radially inner surface of the recessed portion.

Motor

A motor includes a rotating portion including a shaft and a rotor, and a stationary portion including a stator and a magnetic sensor. The magnetic sensor is located above the rotor to detect the rotational position of the rotor. The rotor includes a tubular rotor core defined by laminated steel sheets; a rotor magnet including an upper end surface at an axial level higher than an axial level of an upper end surface of the rotor core; and a rotor holder including a ferromagnetic body, and above the rotor core and radially inside of the rotor magnet. Each of the rotor core and an outer cylindrical portion of the rotor holder is in contact with the rotor magnet or opposite to the rotor magnet with a gap intervening therebetween.

A motor includes a shaft, an annular rotor magnet, an armature arranged to cover the rotor magnet, an upper bracket fixed to an axial upper portion of the armature, and a lower bracket fixed to an axial lower portion of the armature. The armature includes an annular core-back, a plurality of magnetic pole teeth protruding radially inward from the core-back, an insulator arranged to cover the magnetic pole teeth, and a coil wound around the magnetic pole teeth through the insulator. The insulator includes an annular core-back insulating portion arranged radially outward of the coil and extended axially upward. The upper bracket is fixed by a plurality of fixing members positioned radially inward of an outer circumferential surface of the core-back.

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Kyoto, Japan

Jun Nagasawa