Abstract: Provided is an outer rotor type motor capable of reducing workload for wiring and connecting coil leads without reducing a coil space factor while keeping the motor small. Coil leads extracted from same-phase coils of respective stator units pass between pole teeth of the stator units, and are respectively connected to inter-phase connection terminals at one end and then connected in series with each other, the stator units comprises a plurality of individual same-phase stator units which are stacked together, and the inter-phase connection terminals are protruded from a main terminal body. A drive signal input terminal and external input terminals, to which the other ends of coil leads extracted from the respective phase coils are respectively connected, and a drive signal input terminal and an external input terminal, to which the other ends of coil leads extracted from the respective phase coils are respectively connected, are respectively connected and wired inside the main terminal body.

Abstract: The method is capable of forming stator coils in dead spaces, into which a nozzle of a wire coiling machine is inserted, and improving space factor of the coils. The method comprises the steps of: regular-winding a magnet wire in vacant longitudinal outer parts of slots alternately, without getting into spaces for inserting the nozzle of the wire coiling machine; regular-winding the magnet wire in the rest vacant longitudinal outer parts of the slots and the spaces for inserting the nozzle; regular-winding the magnet wire in vacant longitudinal inner parts of the slots alternately, without getting into spaces for inserting the nozzle; and regular-winding the magnet wire in the rest vacant longitudinal inner parts of the slots and the spaces for inserting the nozzle.

Abstract: The stator of the electric motor comprises: a stator core; tooth sections being radially extended from the stator core; an even number of slots, each of which is formed between the tooth sections; an insulator covering the tooth sections; and motor coils being wound in the slots. The insulator has guide projections, each of which corresponds to each of the tooth sections so as to guide a magnet wire. The guide projections have guide sections, each of which includes a base end part and a front end part. In each of the guide sections, a radial thickness of at least one part located in the base end part is thin, a radial thickness of the front end part is thicker than that of the base end part. The guide sections are formed in same side faces of the guide projections arranged in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: The blower comprises: a stator being provided in a case; a radial bearing being provided in the case; a rotor shaft being provided in the case and supported by the stator and the radial bearing; a rotor being integrated with the rotor shaft; and an impeller being integrated with the rotor shaft, the impeller sucking a fluid into the case from an axial direction and sending the same in the circumferential direction of the impeller. The impeller is attached to the rotor shaft to make a blade forming surface of the impeller face the rotor in the axial direction. A shaft end of the rotor shaft, which is located on the opposite side of the impeller, is supported by a thrust receiving member.

Abstract: The method is capable of equalizing time lengths of stopping a motor at load-holding stop positions of respective phases so as to average amounts of heat generation of phase coils. The method for drive-controlling electric machinery, in which a multiphase motor is used as a driving source of an assist mechanism, is performed by a control unit including a driving circuit for driving the multiphase motor. The method is characterized in that the control unit controls to stop a rotor at a load-holding stop position, at which rotation of the rotor is stopped in a state where a motor coil is energized and the rotor is in a load-holding state, and that the load-holding stop position is angularly shifted an electric angle of 180/n (n is number of phases and an integer two or more) degrees, in a prescribed rotational direction, with respect to a previous load-holding stop position of the rotor.

Abstract: The outer rotor-type blushless motor comprises: a stator including a cylindrical housing, a stator core having stator pole teeth and a bearing coaxially incorporated in a cylindrical hole of the hosing; and a rotor including a rotor yoke, a rotor hub provided to the rotor yoke and a rotor shaft rotatably supported by the bearing. A first resin washer, through which the rotor shaft is pierced and which contacts an end face of the rotor hub, and a second resin washer, which contacts an end face of the bearing incorporated in a center hole of the stator core, contact each other. The second resin washer has an elastic projected section fitted in a concave section formed in the center hole of the stator core.

Abstract: The audio player 30, to which a cartridge 10 storing digital audio data of a book for the visually impaired can be attached, is capable of reproducing the audio data read from the cartridge 10, an accommodating section 40, into which the cartridge 10 can be inserted in a state where the thickness direction of the cartridge is arranged in the vertical direction, is formed in a front wall 30a, and a part of a flat surface of the inserted cartridge 10 is exposed from the accommodating section 40.

Abstract: The electric motor of the present invention is capable of improving efficiency of level-winding coil cables and increasing lamination factors of coils. The coil cable, which is wound on first bobbins as first coils, has connection parts. The connection parts are respectively extended from a winding-start point of the first coil wound on each of the first bobbins and a winding-termination point thereof, for parallel winding, through a groove section located on the inner side of a second coil wound on each of second bobbins so as not to interfere with the second coil.

Abstract: The rotor of the present invention is capable of improving magnetic characteristics, general versatility and ease of assembly. The rotor comprises: a rotor shaft; a ring-shaped rotor magnet being disposed coaxially with the rotor shaft; and a non-magnetic cover covering an outer circumference of the rotor magnet. The rotor magnet and the cover are integral-molded with molding resin in a state where an outer circumference of the cover is exposed and both end parts and an inner circumference of the rotor magnet are covered with the molding resin.

Abstract: In the outer rotor-type motor, coil leads can be efficiently wired in small spaces of stator units. The outer rotor-type motor comprises: a stator being constituted by a plurality of the stator units, in each of which a coil is sandwiched between stator yokes having magnetic pole teeth; a rotor having a rotor yoke, which includes a permanent magnet and which is capable of rotating together with an output shaft; and lead terminals of a driving circuit for energizing the coils. Each of the stator yokes is constituted by a plurality of yoke parts and formed into a ring shape, the stator yokes surround outer circumferences of the coils, and coil leads are extended outward from the inner side of each of the coils via a gap between the outer circumference of the coil and the magnetic pole teeth.

Abstract: The method is capable of forming stator coils in dead spaces, into which a nozzle of a wire coiling machine is inserted, and improving space factor of the coils. The method comprises the steps of: regular-winding a magnet wire in vacant longitudinal outer parts of slots alternately, without getting into spaces for inserting the nozzle of the wire coiling machine; regular-winding the magnet wire in the rest vacant longitudinal outer parts of the slots and the spaces for inserting the nozzle; regular-winding the magnet wire in vacant longitudinal inner parts of the slots alternately, without getting into spaces for inserting the nozzle; and regular-winding the magnet wire in the rest vacant longitudinal inner parts of the slots and the spaces for inserting the nozzle.

Abstract: The permanent magnet rotor is capable of making tolerance of attaching a magnet cover great, applying no stress to structural elements of the rotor, preventing the magnet cover from being damaged under an environment where thermal expansion and thermal contraction are repeated in response to temperature variation, and preventing scatter of magnets. The permanent magnet rotor of an inner rotor-type motor comprises: a rotor yoke; a plurality of permanent magnets being arranged on an outer circumferential face of the rotor yoke, the permanent magnets constituting a plurality of segments; and a ring-shaped magnet cover covering outer faces of the permanent magnets, the magnet cover being composed of a nonmagnetic material. An inner diameter of the magnet cover before covering the outer faces of the permanent magnets is smaller than an outer diameter of the circularly-arranged permanent magnets.

Abstract: The method is capable of equalizing time lengths of stopping a motor at load-holding stop positions of respective phases so as to average amounts of heat generation of phase coils. The method for drive-controlling electric machinery, in which a multiphase motor is used as a driving source of an assist mechanism, is performed by a control unit including a driving circuit for driving the multiphase motor. The method is characterized in that the control unit controls to stop a rotor at a load-holding stop position, at which rotation of the rotor is stopped in a state where a motor coil is energized and the rotor is in a load-holding state, and that the load-holding stop position is angularly shifted an electric angle of 180/n (n is number of phases and an integer two or more) degrees, in a prescribed rotational direction, with respect to a previous load-holding stop position of the rotor.

Abstract: The mirror swing range control device is capable of reducing a production cost of the control device and precisely adjusting a swing range of a mirror section.

Abstract: The drive control device of a light scanning apparatus can be easily controlled, occurrence of overshoot can be prevented, and a scanning range of a mirror section can be adjusted in a short time. An amplitude adjusting section generates at least one of first adjusting voltage for acceleration, whose amplitude is higher than that of adjusting voltage for obtaining object amplitude, and second adjusting voltage for deceleration, whose amplitude is lower than that of the adjusting voltage for obtaining the object amplitude, and applies the same to a drive circuit for a prescribed time, to perform feedback control, when a comparing section generates an error signal, so as to cancel increase-decrease variation of the error signal.

Abstract: The electric motor of the present invention is capable of improving efficiency of level-winding coil cables and increasing lamination factors of coils. The coil cable, which is wound on first bobbins as first coils, has connection parts. The connection parts are respectively extended from a winding-start point of the first coil wound on each of the first bobbins and a winding-termination point thereof, for parallel winding, through a groove section located on the inner side of a second coil wound on each of second bobbins so as not to interfere with the second coil.

Abstract: A brushless motor is smaller, flatter, and lighter but is easy to assemble and has reduced motor vibration. An attachment base is integrally molded by two-color extrusion molding using a first resin material that forms a base main portion and a second resin material that forms a support portion and is softer than the first resin material.

Abstract: The permanent magnet type rotary machine is capable of reducing cogging torque even if permanent magnets are displaced in the axial direction and which is capable of reducing production cost and increasing torque. At least a stator unit of a first phase out of two stator units, which are stacked with a phase difference of (360°/(2P)), is stacked m-th, from one end of the stack of the stator units, to face magnetic poles of one of the permanent magnets. The other stator unit of the second phase, whose excitation cycle is shifted ¼ cycle with respect to that of the stator unit of the first phase, is stacked ((nQ/2)+m)-th, from the one end of the stack, to face magnetic poles of another permanent magnet. Note that, P is number of the magnetic poles of the permanent magnet; m is an integer of (nQ/2) or less, and one or more; Q is an even number of two or more; and n is an integer of one or more, and the product of n×Q is an integer of four or more.

Abstract: An outer rotor motor has a bearing housing with reduced machining and material costs, can be assembled with high accuracy, and has favorable durability. A bearing is attached to an inner circumferential surface of a housing main body that has been formed in a cylindrical shape by plastic deformation caused by press molding a metal matrix. At least one protruding surface is formed by plastic deformation so as to protrude further outward than the housing main body, and the stator core is attached to the outer circumference-side of the at least one protruding surface.