Abstract: A motor unit having a drive motor, a control portion, and a base made of an aluminum die-casting product. The motor unit is fixed to a fixing stand of a sewing machine for driving a drive shaft thereof. The base has a pair of supporting brackets connected to the fixing stand for suspendingly fixing the base to the fixing stand. The base has a plate-like portion. The drive motor is fixed to one surface of the plate-like portion, and the control portion is fixed to an opposite surface thereof. A motor cover made of a synthetic resin is mounted on the one surface for covering the drive motor, and a protection cover made of a synthetic resin is mounted on the opposite surface for covering the control portion. The control portion includes a plurality of electronic components including heat generating elements. The heat generating elements are directly mounted on the base to release heat from the base.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator member for a stepping motor of the present invention comprises the steps of: placing a coil member on a mold; placing a yoke member on a mold with its teeth portions being inserted into a cylindrical hollow portion of the coil member from its one end, one surface of each of the teeth portions facing the mold being in contact with a surface of the mold; pressing the yoke member toward the coil member in a direction along the central shaft portion of the coil member so that a base plate portion of the yoke member may be brought into contact with a flange portion of the coil member; and providing hardenable material in a space enclosed by the surface of the mold and surfaces of the coil member and the yoke member, to thereby integrally uniting the coil member and the yoke member into one stator member.