Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.

Yasuyuki Ooe

Katsuhiro Oomori

Atsushi Nakagawa

A power tool includes: a stator having a substantially cylindrical yoke and a plurality of permanent magnets that are firmly fixed to an inner surface of the yoke and circumferentially spaced from each other by a first gap; a rotor inserted inside the permanent magnets at a second gap radially; an outer frame portion that accommodates the stator and the rotor; a ventilation hole formed in the outer frame portion to place the first and second gaps in communication with an atmosphere; and a dustproof member comprising a ferromagnetic material, which is mounted in contact with the stator and has a protruding portion located in a passage going from the first and second gaps to the atmosphere via the ventilation hole.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Yasuyuki Ooe