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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 1985
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C / ; H02K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
310 90 ; 308 10 ; 310154 ; 384115 ;
Abstract
In an electric motor unit, a spindle is rotatably supported by bearing sections of a dynamic-pressure type, and is floated along its axis by a magnetic thrust bearing. At the bearing sections, air current layers are formed in the gaps between journals of the spindle and bearings by elongated parallel grooves formed along the axis, and the spindle is supported by pressure distributed over the air current layers. In the thrust bearing, rotor magnets fixed to the spindle are attracted to stator magnets fixed to the housing and surrounding the rotor magnets. The spindle is floated along the axis by the attraction between the magnets.