Abstract: A rotor includes a resin magnet and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet. The resin magnet includes a first magnetic flux generating part having a first magnetic pole center and a first inter-pole part and a second magnetic flux generating part having a second magnetic pole center and a second inter-pole part. The first inter-pole part and the second inter-pole part are shifted to each other in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator, and includes a first substrate and a second substrate mounted on the stator. The stator has a stator core in a ring shape and a first coil of a first phase and a second coil of a second phase wound around the stator core. The first substrate includes a first power supply wiring to supply electric power to the first coil. The second substrate has a second power supply wiring to supply electric power to the second coil.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a magnetic pole position detection element to detect a position of a magnetic pole of the rotor. The rotor includes a resin magnet having a first orientation and a second orientation, and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet, and the first and second orientations and are different from each other in a radial direction. The magnetic pole position detection element faces the resin magnet in an axial direction.

Abstract: Provided is a power control device that drives an electric motor including a rotor into which a rotary shaft is inserted and a stator, the stator being provided on an outer peripheral side of the rotor, the power control device including: a substrate having a through hole and disposed to face the rotor and the stator, the rotary shaft being caused to pass through the through hole; a power semiconductor module mounted on the substrate and including a drive circuit; and a microcomputer mounted on the substrate, and configured to control power supplied to the electric motor, wherein the substrate is integrally formed with the stator by using a molded resin, and a first part having a lower thermal conductivity than the molded resin is disposed on the substrate at a position between the power semiconductor module and the microcomputer.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a magnetic sensor. The stator has an iron core and a magnetic flux coil. The rotor has a rotary shaft and a cylindrical rotor magnet. The magnetic sensor has a sensor unit that outputs an electric signal based on an applied magnetic flux. The rotor magnet is disposed so as to face the iron core of the stator. The rotor magnet has a main magnet unit and a sensor magnet unit that is formed integrally with the main magnet unit and has an external diameter smaller than an external diameter of the main magnet unit. The magnetic sensor is disposed beside the sensor magnet unit. An outer circumferential edge of the sensor magnet unit is located farther away from the rotary shaft than a center of the sensor unit. The magnetic sensor is configured such that a center of the sensor unit and a center of the magnetic sensor do not match each other, and the center of the sensor unit is closer to the sensor magnet unit than the center of the magnetic sensor.

Abstract: An electric motor has a mechanism to detect an overcurrent in an inverter circuit. The electric motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a board. The board includes a power transistor, a first resistor, a second resistor, and a constant voltage diode. The power transistor is included in the inverter circuit, which is configured to change a direction of a current that flows through a winding of the stator. The first resistor is provided between the power transistor and a ground terminal, and configured to detect an overcurrent in the inverter circuit. The second resistor is provided between the power transistor and the first resistor, and configured to detect a current that flows through the winding of the stator. The constant voltage diode is connected parallel to the first resistor.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator to which a substrate can be stably secured without increasing the size of the substrate. An air-conditioning apparatus includes the motor. At an end portion of the stator in the axial direction thereof, a substrate on which electronic components are mounted is provided. The stator includes: a stator core formed by stacking electromagnetic steel sheets, and including a plurality of teeth; insulators provided on the stator core; and a wire wound around the teeth, the teeth being coated with the insulators. The insulators have outer walls provided on respective core backs of the stator core.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a magnetic pole position detection element to detect a position of a magnetic pole of the rotor. The rotor includes a resin magnet having a first orientation and a second orientation, and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet, and the first and second orientations and are different from each other in a radial direction. The magnetic pole position detection element faces the resin magnet in an axial direction.

Abstract: A consequent-pole-type rotor includes a first rotor core having a first insertion hole, and a second rotor core having a second insertion hole, the second rotor core being stacked on the first rotor core such that the first insertion hole and the second insertion hole together form a space accommodating a permanent magnet. The first insertion hole has an opening at a first circumferential position of the first rotor core, and the second insertion hole is occluded at least at a second circumferential position of the second rotor core. The second circumferential position corresponds to the first circumferential position.

Abstract: A rotor includes: a resin magnet including a first magnetic flux generating part and a second magnetic flux generating part; and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet. The first magnetic flux generating part has a first orientation. The second magnetic flux generating part has a second orientation different from the first orientation in a radial direction. A peak of magnetic flux density from the first magnetic flux generating part is larger than a peak of magnetic flux density from the second magnetic flux generating part.

Abstract: A rotor includes a resin magnet and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet. The resin magnet includes a first magnetic flux generating part having a first magnetic pole center and a first inter-pole part and a second magnetic flux generating part having a second magnetic pole center and a second inter-pole part. The first inter-pole part and the second inter-pole part are shifted to each other in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: The rotor of the electric motor includes a rotor magnet. The rotor magnet includes a yoke, and a resin magnet part formed of a resin material containing rare-earth magnetic powder, which is disposed outside the yoke. Multiple pedestals and multiple connecting portions are formed on an end surface of the yoke. The connecting portion joins together the adjacent pedestals. The connecting portions are disposed in a middle position of the end surface in the radial direction. The connecting portions each have a height less than the height of the pedestals. The present invention gains advantage in that the amount of rare-earth magnetic powder used in the rotor magnet can be reduced.

Abstract: An electric motor includes an annular stator and a consequent-pole-type rotor including an annular rotor core disposed on the inner side of the stator and a plurality of permanent magnets disposed inside the rotor core and arrayed in a circumferential direction of the rotor core, in which the stator is covered with an unsaturated polyester resin.

Abstract: A permanent-magnet synchronous motor includes: an annular stator core; a cylindrical rotor disposed inside the stator core, and having a first end face in an axial direction of the stator core and a second end face in the axial direction; a disk-shaped sensor magnet having a plurality of magnetic poles disposed circumferentially, and having a third end face and a fourth end face; and a magnetic sensor disposed so as to be opposed to the fourth end face in the axial direction, and detecting a rotating position of the sensor magnet. When a first thickness means the axial thickness at the center of each of the magnetic poles and a second thickness means the axial thickness of an inter-magnetic-pole portion between adjacent magnetic poles of the magnetic poles, the second thickness is greater than the first thickness.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core having a first tooth and a second tooth adjacent to each other, a coil having a first winding portion wound around the first tooth and a second winding portion wound around the second tooth, a spacer inserted into a gap between the first winding portion and the second winding portion, and a molding resin covering the stator core, the coil, and the spacer. The spacer is shaped from a plastic material identical with a plastic material of which the molding resin is composed.

Abstract: A stator to which a power supply lead wire for supplying electric power is connected, includes a stator core, a winding wound around the stator core, a winding terminal connected to the winding, a circuit board connecting the power supply lead wire and the winding terminal to each other and having a surface facing the stator core, a power supply terminal provided on the surface and connected to the power supply lead wire, and a wiring pattern provided on the surface and connecting the winding terminal and the power supply terminal to each other.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a shaft, a stator provided so as to surround the rotor, a first bearing and a second bearing rotatably supporting the shaft and disposed at a distance from each other in an axial direction of the shaft, a molded resin part covering the stator and having a bearing support part supporting the first bearing, a bracket attached to the molded resin part, supporting the second bearing, and having conductivity, and a conductive member provided in contact with both of the bearing support and the bracket.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator and a consequent-pole-type rotor including an annular rotor core disposed on an inner side of the stator and a plurality of permanent magnets disposed inside the rotor core and arrayed in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The rotor core includes at least one slit provided inside the rotor core and disposed on an outer side of each of the permanent magnets in a radial direction of the rotor core, and at least one slit provided on an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core and disposed between the permanent magnets adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator to which a substrate can be stably secured without increasing the size of the substrate. An air-conditioning apparatus includes the motor. At an end portion of the stator in the axial direction thereof, a substrate on which electronic components are mounted is provided. The stator includes: a stator core formed by stacking electromagnetic steel sheets, and including a plurality of teeth; insulators provided on the stator core; and a wire wound around the teeth, the teeth being coated with the insulators. The insulators have outer walls provided on respective core backs of the stator core.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator assembly, a heat radiation member to radiate heat of the stator assembly, and a resin integrating the heat radiation member with the stator assembly.