Abstract: A permanent magnet (PM) stepping motor includes a rotor structure and a stator. The rotor structure includes an axis, multipolar yoke stacks, and at least one spacer. Each of multipolar yoke stacks includes an N multipolar yoke, a permanent magnet and an S multipolar yoke combined as a hamburger-like structure, and each N pole of the N multipolar yoke and each S pole of the S multipolar yoke are alternately aligned. One of the spacer is sandwiched between each pair of the multipolar yoke stacks. The stator circumnavigates the axis and the multipolar yoke stacks, and provides a magnetic field for the multipolar yoke stacks to make the axis rotating. This PM stepping motor has the advantage of a minimized magnetic pole pitch and a high torque, which cannot be achieved in conventional stepping motors.

Abstract: A permanent magnet (PM) stepping motor includes a rotor structure and a stator. The rotor structure includes an axis, multipolar yoke stacks, and at least one spacer. Each of multipolar yoke stacks includes an N multipolar yoke, a permanent magnet and an S multipolar yoke combined as a hamburger-like structure, and each N pole of the N multipolar yoke and each S pole of the S multipolar yoke are alternately aligned. One of the spacer is sandwiched between each pair of the multipolar yoke stacks. The stator circumnavigates the axis and the multipolar yoke stacks, and provides a magnetic field for the multipolar yoke stacks to make the axis rotating. This PM stepping motor has the advantage of a minimized magnetic pole pitch and a high torque, which cannot be achieved in conventional stepping motors.

Abstract: A rotor structure of a permanent magnet (PM) stepping motor includes a permanent magnet and two multiple yokes, both of which are stacked together to form a rotor structure with hamburger-like multipolar yoke stacks. The top and bottom layers of each multipolar yoke stacks can be multipolar yokes with a gear shape, forming an NS stack structure with a multipolar magnetic field. This structure has the advantage of a minimized magnetic pole span and a high torque, which cannot be achieved in conventional stepping motors.