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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 12, 1996
Hiroshi Itoh, Takefu, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Abstract
A permanent magnet rotor includes a rotor shaft, a yoke mounted on the rotor shaft to form a magnetic path, a plurality of permanent magnets secured to the outer surface of the yoke, and a non-magnetic metallic cylindrical cover mounted on the permanent magnets. The cylindrical cover has a plurality of axially equidistantly spaced grooves defined in the outer surface thereof so as to extend circumferentially thereof. The cylindrical cover may have a continuous spiral groove in place of the plurality of axially equidistantly spaced grooves.
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