Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning tank that defines a cleaning space for cleaning a wafer; a wafer rotation mechanism that is arranged inside the cleaning tank and holds and rotates the wafer; a cleaning member that contacts and cleans a surface of the wafer, is rotatable around a central axis extending in a lateral direction, and has a length in an axial direction longer than a radius of the wafer; a swing mechanism that swings the cleaning member around a swing axis located inside the cleaning tank to move the cleaning member from a retracted position outside of the wafer to a cleaning position directly above the wafer; a second cleaning means that cleans the surface of the wafer; and a second swing mechanism that swings the second cleaning means around a second swing axis located inside the cleaning tank to pass directly above a center of the wafer.

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 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: 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: 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 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: A consequent-pole-type rotor including a rotor core and a permanent magnet 1 disposed inside the rotor core, includes a first rotor core having a first region into which the permanent magnet is inserted and a second rotor core that has a second region communicating with the first region and is stacked on the first rotor core, wherein a second width is larger than a first width, where the first width is a width of the first region in a radial direction of the rotor core and the second width is a width of the second region in the radial direction of the rotor core.

Abstract: A permanent-magnet electric motor includes an annular stator core, a rotor core, and a rotating-position detection sensor. In each of a plurality of magnet insertion holes formed in the rotor core, a rare-earth magnet and a ferrite magnet are disposed adjacent to each other in an axial direction of the rotor core. The rotor core has an axial length longer than an axial length of the stator core. The rare-earth magnet is disposed in each of the magnet insertion holes to be opposed to the stator core in a radial direction of the stator core. The ferrite magnet disposed in each of the magnet insertion holes is disposed between the rare-earth magnet disposed in the corresponding magnet insertion hole and the rotating-position detection sensor.

Abstract: A stator includes a plurality of winding sections circumferentially disposed at an equal interval; a spacer inserted into a space between the winding sections; and a resin section filling the space into which the spacer is inserted.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a wiring board that achieves both of high mounting position accuracy and high solder strength in a circumferential direction. On the wiring board, an electronic component including a plurality of pins is mounted. The wiring board includes a base substrate, a plurality of wires provided on the base substrate, a resist covering the wires, and a plurality of footprints connected to the wires and having entire surfaces exposed in openings of the resist. The pins are soldered to the footprints by reflow. In the openings of the resist, directions in which the pins are led out are parallel to directions in which the wires are led out.

Abstract: The 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 resin chip disposed in in a gap between the first winding portion and the second winding portion, and a molding resin covering the stator core, the coil, and the resin chip.

Abstract: A consequent-pole-type rotor including a rotor core and a permanent magnet 1 disposed inside the rotor core, includes a first rotor core having a first region into which the permanent magnet is inserted and a second rotor core that has a second region communicating with the first region and is stacked on the first rotor core, wherein a second width is larger than a first width, where the first width is a width of the first region in a radial direction of the rotor core and the second width is a width of the second region in the radial direction of the rotor core.

Abstract: A permanent-magnet electric motor includes: a rotor; and a rotational-position detection sensor configured to detect a rotational position of the rotor. The rotor includes: a rotating shaft; an annular ferrite magnet disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft; and a rare-earth magnet disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the ferrite magnet, and a length from a center of the ferrite magnet in an axial direction of the ferrite magnet to an end face of the ferrite magnet on a side of the rotational-position detection sensor in the axial direction of the ferrite magnet is longer than a length from a center of the rare-earth magnet in an axial direction of the rare-earth magnet to an end face of the rare-earth magnet on a side of the rotational-position detection sensor in the axial direction of the rare-earth magnet.

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: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor provided to be rotatable with respect to the stator, and a driving circuit board including a power IC applying a driving voltage to the stator, a Hall IC detecting a rotation position of the rotor, and a control IC adjusting a phase of the driving voltage in accordance with a magnetic-pole-position signal from the Hall IC and rotation speed information calculated on the basis of the magnetic-pole-position signal. The Hall IC is provided at a position at which an advance angle is larger than zero when a rotation speed of the rotor is zero.

Abstract: A motor including a rotor, and a stator having a plurality of coils wound around slots, wherein at least any one of the coils includes a single aluminum wire, a single copper wire joined to the aluminum wire, a stranded wire (lead wire) joined to the copper wire, a cold-pressure-welded joint portion (joint portion) joined between the aluminum wire and the copper wire by cold pressure welding, and a non-pressure welded joint portion (joint portion) provided between the copper wire and the stranded wire (lead wire). A burr covered by an insulation member (insulation tube) is provided in the cold-pressure-welded joint portion (joint portion). A thickness of the insulation member (insulation tube) is larger than a height of the burr.