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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1996
Jorg Skrippek, Priort, DE;
BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A drive device for a front-loading washing machine having a washing liquid-container with a rear wall, an at least substantially horizontal shaft with an outer end, and a laundry drum supported overhung on the shaft, includes a flat motor for directly driving the shaft. The flat motor has a rotor fastened at the outer end of the shaft and a stator rigidly attached to the rear wall of the washing liquid container and having exciter windings, an integrated flange with an inner periphery and a central bearing sleeve for the shaft. Lamination stacks receive the exciter windings and are distributed at the inner periphery of the flange. The rotor has circumferentially distributed magnetizable poles disposed opposite and across a minimum air gap from the lamination stacks.