Abstract: A fuel pump, for an internal combustion engine, has a housing accommodating a pump and a motor. The motor is arranged to drive the pump so as to pump fuel through the housing. The motor has a wound stator having a plurality of inwardly directed teeth about which a stator winding is wound, and a radially outer surface in contact with an inner surface of the housing. One or more pathways are formed between the inner surface of the housing and the outer surface of the stator, for the flow of fuel there through. Each pathway is formed by an axially extending recess formed in the outer surface of the stator and aligned with a selected tooth of the stator.

Abstract: An electric motor has a housing, a rotor rotatably installed in the housing, n permanent magnets with the same polarity fixed at an inner surface of the housing. The rotor is a wound armature having a plurality of teeth extending in a radial direction. The housing includes n inner projecting parts, the permanent magnets and the inner projecting parts being alternately arranged in a circumferential direction about the rotor. The magnets generate 2n magnetic circuits via the housing and the rotor, n being an integer greater than one. The size of at least a portion of a first air gap formed between the permanent magnets and the rotor is greater than the size of at least a portion of a second air gap formed between the inner projecting parts and the rotor.