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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2002
Yoshinari Asano, Takefu, JP;
Takao Sawahata, Takefu, JP;
Yukio Honda, Katano, JP;
Takahisa Kurahayashi, Fujisawa, JP;
Toshiyuki Tamamura, Kadoma, JP;
Hiroyuki Kiriyama, Hirakata, JP;
Abstract
A motor has a stator having a plurality of teeth for receiving windings, a yoke connected to each tooth, and a rotor having permanent magnets facing the stator. An inner wall surface of each tooth faces the rotor with an air-gap therebetween. Each tooth is separated from an adjacent tooth by a slot-open-section extending between a tailing end of the tooth and a leading end of the adjacent tooth. The inner wall surface of each tooth has an arc extending from a center of the slot-open-section toward the tailing end. The air-gap at the tailing end of each tooth is greater than the air-gap at the leading end of each tooth. The inner wall surface of each tooth includes a straight-line tailing section extending from the center of the slot-open-section toward the leading end. The straight-line tailing section extends tangentially from the arc.