Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rotor assembly and a motor including the same. The rotor assembly according to the present disclosure includes a rotor core having a through-hole formed through a central portion thereof in an axial direction of the rotor core, and a rotor shaft that is coupled to the rotor core through the through-hole and that has a hollow into which a cooling fluid is introduced. A cooling fin protrudes from an inner circumferential surface of the rotor core toward the rotor shaft to form, between the rotor core and the rotor shaft, a rotor cooling channel through which the cooling fluid flows.

Abstract: Provided are rotor of permanent magnet surface affixation-type rotating machine and its manufacturing method, where permanent magnets previously magnetized are easily fixable at proper positions while restricting cost. In rotor of permanent magnet surface affixation-type rotating machine, including cylindrical rotor shaft 11, columnar guides 13 extending along axial direction of rotor shaft 11 and disposed in circumferential direction at regular intervals, and permanent magnets 12 previously magnetized and installed on surface of rotor shaft 11 and between the adjacent guides 13, axial length of guide 13 is formed longer than that of region where permanent magnets 12 are installed, guide 13 is disposed on surface of rotor shaft 11 such that guide 13 projects toward both sides in axial direction from region where permanent magnets 12 are installed, and projection portions 13a, 13b projecting in axial direction from region where permanent magnets 12 are installed are fixed to rotor shaft 11.

Abstract: A rotor for a brushless electric machine, having: a rotor core; a rotor shaft, installed inside the rotor core; multiple U-shaped holes are formed in the rotor core, each of the U-shaped holes including a first magnet installation hole, a second magnet installation hole and a hardening material filling hole formed by a bottom space of the U-shaped hole. A groove structure is formed on the rotor core forming a first surface of the hardening material filling hole, with the width of a groove opening of the groove structure being smaller than the width of the bottom of the groove. The rotor for a brushless electric machine provided in the present invention has the advantages of low internal magnetic circuit losses and a stable mechanical structure.

Abstract: A multi-ring disc motor is revealed. The multi-ring disc motor includes a plurality of stator rings and a plurality of permanent magnets. The stator rings are disposed in a stator base and the permanent magnets are mounted on a plurality of circular ribs of a rotor base. The permanent magnets on the respective circular rib of the rotor base are corresponding to a coil on the stator ring in a respective circular groove of the stator base by the stator base and the rotor base connected to each other. Thereby high torque and high horsepower are generated by the stator rings on the stator base and the permanent magnets on the circular ribs of the rotor base. The power consumption is reduced effectively. Thus the battery life of vehicles such as cars is extended and this eliminates the needs to stop for charging.

Abstract: A rotor may include a rotation shaft, a magnet on an outer peripheral side, a holding member holding the rotation shaft and the magnet, and a plurality of recessed parts provided in an end face of the magnet in an axial line direction of the rotation shaft so as to be separated from each other in a circumferential direction. A surface of each of the recessed parts is formed in a spherical shape, the holding member has a flange portion which covers the end face of the magnet from an end on an inner peripheral side of the end face of the magnet to an outer peripheral side with respect to the plurality of the recessed parts, and the flange portion is adhered to the surfaces of the recessed parts.

Abstract: The present invention suppresses magnets peel off from a rotor core due to a difference in the amount of thermal expansion between the magnets and the rotor core. Provided is a rotating-electric-machine rotor structure that includes: a cylindrical rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets that are adhered to an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core with an adhesive. An adhesion surface of the rotor core, to which the permanent magnets are adhered, is provided with a plurality of protrusions that are spaced apart from one another along a surface of the rotor core, that extend radially outward direction, and that are able to deform in a direction in which the protrusions are spaced apart from one another.

Abstract: A fan rotor mechanism includes a fan impeller, a case and an adhesive body. The fan impeller has a hub and multiple fan blades. The hub has a first top section and a first peripheral section together defining a receiving space for receiving the case. The case has a receptacle for receiving therein at least one magnetic component. The case and the magnetic component define therebetween a filling gap. The case is formed with at least one perforation in communication with the filling gap. The adhesive body is filled up in the filling gap. By means of the structural design of the fan rotor mechanism, the fan rotor mechanism is applicable to various magnetic components with different sizes. Therefore, is unnecessary to manufacture different sizes of molds for different sizes of cases so that the fan rotor mechanism has high universality and is manufactured at lower cost.

Abstract: Rotor, in particular permanent magnet rotor, for an electric machine, having a magnet support, a plurality of magnets which are arranged on the magnet support, and a rotor core which is arranged between a shaft and the magnet support, wherein the rotor core comprises plastic.

Abstract: Each permanent magnet provided in a rotor includes a projection that projects toward a corresponding predetermined portion of the rotor core. An inner peripheral surface of each permanent magnet, which is radially opposed to the corresponding predetermined portion of the rotor core, includes a primary contacting portion and two primary non-contacting portions. The primary contacting portion contacts the corresponding predetermined portion of the rotor core at a circumferential location, which corresponds to the projection. The primary non-contacting portions do not contact the rotor core and are located on two circumferentially opposite sides, respectively, of the primary contacting portion.

Abstract: A rotor is provided which includes a first rotor portion, a second rotor portion which is arranged at a position deviated from the first rotor portion by a predetermined skew angle so as to contact the first rotor portion, first magnets each of which is provided in a magnetic pole of the first rotor portion, and second magnets each of which is provided in a magnetic pole of the second rotor portion and is arranged at a position deviated from the first magnet of the first rotor portion by the predetermined skew angle. Coercive field strengths of the first magnets and coercive field strengths of the second magnets are different from each other.

Abstract: A magnet assembly includes at least one support member, a plurality of magnets, wherein each one of the plurality of magnets is positioned relative to the at least one support member by a male-female interface. For each one of the plurality of magnets, a male portion is engaged into a female portion so that displacements during a step of attachment of each one of the plurality of magnets to the at least one support member are avoided.

Abstract: Certain aspects relate to topologies for an interior permanent magnet (IPM) electrical machine having increased saliency torque, increased flux-linkage, reduced magnet leakage flux, and reduced detrimental slotting effects compared to existing IPM electrical machines. The IPM electrical machine includes a rotor having a number of poles and a flux barrier formed along the edge of the rotor between poles. The flux barrier contains a magnet or set of magnets having a varying thickness, with a central thickest portion located along the d-axis of the rotor. A magnet retention structure, which may be formed integrally with the rotor or provided as a separate structure, surrounds the rotor and magnets. The rotor and magnets combine to form a smooth circular profile having no air gaps.

Abstract: A method of attaching a magnet to a rotor or a stator of an electrical machine is provided. The method includes arranging a magnet along a surface of the rotor or stator; arranging a pair of retainers, one on each side of the magnet; enclosing the rotor or stator, magnet and retainers in a vacuum bag; and performing vacuum evacuation to consolidate the magnet to the retainers by means of adhesive. A magnet mounting arrangement for a rotor or a stator of an electrical machine and a wind turbine with a generator including a rotor and a stator and such a magnet mounting arrangement are also provided.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an interior magnet rotor core motor is described herein. The method includes attaching a resilient material to an inner rigid structure configured to engage a shaft associated with the motor, engaging the structure with the motor shaft, positioning the shaft and structure assembly with respect to the rotor core, and affixing the resilient material to the rotor core.

Abstract: A method for producing a radially anisotropic ring magnet having at least one axial groove on the inner surface comprises using a die comprising a cylindrical, magnetic core, a magnetic sleeve having an axial ridge in alignment with the groove on the outer surface and disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the core, and an outer, cylindrical die member defining a cavity for forming the ring magnet with the magnetic sleeve, and compression-molding magnet powder charged into the cavity while applying a magnetic field in a radial direction, and a radially anisotropic ring magnet substantially having a composition of R-TM-B, wherein R is at least one of rare earth elements including Y, TM is at least one of transition metals, and B is boron, having at least one axial groove on the inner surface, and magnetized such that centerlines between magnetic poles do not overlap grooves.

Abstract: A rotor of an electric motor is provided in which a permanent magnet holding member can be assuredly fixed to a rotor main body and the rotor main body can be easily worked and inexpensively manufactured. In the rotor, a plurality of permanent magnets 21 are held in a permanent magnet holding member 29 made of a synthetic resin and fixed to an outer peripheral part of a cylindrical rotor main body 28. An outer peripheral surface of the rotor main body 28 is a cylindrical surface. Rotation prevention recessed parts 30 are formed at a plurality of parts in the circumferential direction of the outer peripheral part in both end parts of the rotor main body 28. The permanent magnet holding member 29 includes annular parts 31 which come into close contact with the outer peripheral parts of both end faces of the rotor main body 28 and connecting parts 32 which connect both the annular parts 31 on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor main body 28 and hold the permanent magnets 21.

Abstract: A magnetic component part for a rotor assembly of an electromechanical transducer is provided. The magnetic component part includes a base element having a first side and an opposing second side, a permanent magnet, attached to the base element at the first side, and a mounting structure fixed to the base element at the second side and adapted to be mechanically connected to a support structure of the rotor assembly. The permanent magnet is located in an offset position with respect to a central axis of the mounting structure, which central axis extends from the mounting structure through the second side to the first side. A rotor assembly, an electromechanical transducer and a wind turbine, which are all equipped with at least four magnetic component parts are also provided as well as a method for manufacturing a rotor assembly including at least four magnetic component parts.

Abstract: A permanently magnetizable rotor having a central rotor structure including a rotor shaft supporting a cylindrical backiron. The rotor further includes a multi-pole structure comprising circumferentially alternating pole elements, and a rotor cover extending longitudinally over the multi-pole structure. The rotor additionally includes an endcap including an engagement surface positioned in engagement with an end of the backiron. The endcap defines first and second anti-rotation features for preventing circumferential rotation of one or more of the pole elements about the backiron. The first anti-rotation feature is configured differently than the second anti-rotation feature and each anti-rotation feature defines a torque transmitting feature for transmitting a torque from different locations on the multi-pole structure.

Abstract: Disclosed is a torque rotor and method for manufacturing the torque rotor having an effect of preventing inflow of plastic between a yoke and a magnet during a conventional plastic injection molding process for forming an assembling structure after assembling between the yoke and the magnet, thereby preventing degradation of a roundness of the magnet or damage of the magnet due to the difference in the temperature expansion coefficients, and preventing idle rotation of the yoke and the magnet relative to each other.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing sintered magnet poles is described. The mold is filled with a vitrifiable base material powder and closed with a plate. A magnetic field aligns the powder and a plate pressed onto the powder establishes a compact that holds the alignment in place. The compact is sintered to form a sintered magnet pole. The mold forms a protective cover of the sintered magnet pole and the plate forms a base plate of a magnet pole piece. Furthermore, a magnet pole piece is provided which has a magnet pole and a base plate which is fixed to a protective cover so that the base plate and the protective cover surround the magnet pole. The base plate and/or the protective cover of the magnet pole piece has at least one element that provides a geometrical locking of the magnet pole to the base plate and/or the protective cover.

Abstract: An electric motor rotor includes a core member having a plurality of locating grooves spaced around the periphery thereof and outer rotation-stopping portions, and a magnetic unit arranged around the periphery of the core member and defining a plurality of magnetic zones corresponding to the space between each two adjacent locating grooves. The magnetic unit can be a magnetic barrel having inner rotation-stopping portions for abutting against the outer rotation-stopping portions of the core member. Alternatively, the magnetic unit can be made comprising a plurality of magnets to form the multiple magnetic zones and a hoop for attaching to the magnets to secure the magnets to the periphery of the core member. Using the core member with the said two magnetic units can make two different rotors that have the common advantages of quick assembly, accurate alignment of magnetic zones and cost-effectiveness.

Abstract: The object of the invention is a rotor for a permanent-magnet synchronous machine in which a pole structure is fitted onto the surface of the rotor body structure facing the air gap. Each of the rotor's pole structures comprises at least one permanent magnet and a shell structure fitted on top of it. According to the invention, an intermediate layer made of magnetic composite is fitted between the permanent magnet and the shell structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rotor of a brushless (BL) motor, including: a high-strength engineering plastic member formed by injection-molding high-strength engineering plastic around a concavo-convex portion 12a formed on the outer circumferential surface of a rotary shaft; a sound-absorbing resin element formed by injection-molding a sound-absorbing resin around the high-strength engineering plastic member; a cylindrical ring magnet assembly including a plurality of axially aligned ring-shaped magnets, each of which has a plurality of indented grooves 20a and 20b formed on both end edges of the inner circumferential surface thereof; and a high-strength plastic member formed by injection-molding a high-strength plastic between the sound-absorbing resin element and the ring magnet assembly, the high-strength plastic member having a plurality of protrusions formed on the outer circumferential surface thereof in such a fashion that each protrusion corresponds to an associated one of the indented grooves of

Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor arrangement that is particularly suitable for low-speed large-diameter electrical generators includes a rotor 2 having a radially outer rim 4. A circumferential array of magnet carriers 12 is non-releasably affixed to the outer rim 4 of the rotor and have a radially outer surface. An inverted U-shaped pole piece retainer 18 made of non-magnetic material such as stainless steel is affixed to each magnet carrier 12 and is formed with an axially extending channel. At least one pole piece 16 made of a magnetic material such as steel is located adjacent to the radially outer surface of each magnet carrier 12 and in the channel formed in its associated pole piece retainer 18.

Abstract: Permanent-magnet holding projections provided at end portions of adjacent segment core pieces that face each other have connecting portions at the centers of the permanent-magnet holding projections. Permanent-magnet holding projections included in the segment core pieces that are on either side of the permanent-magnet holding projections having the connecting portions in a thickness direction are provided with receiving portions for receiving bulging portions that bulge in the thickness direction when the connecting portions are bent.

Abstract: A magnetic component part for a rotor assembly of an electromechanical transducer is provided. The magnetic component part includes a base element having a first side and an opposing second side, a permanent magnet, attached to the base element at the first side, and a mounting structure fixed to the base element at the second side and adapted to be mechanically connected to a support structure of the rotor assembly. The permanent magnet is located in an offset position with respect to a central axis of the mounting structure, which central axis extends from the mounting structure through the second side to the first side. A rotor assembly, an electromechanical transducer and a wind turbine, which are all equipped with at least four magnetic component parts are also provided as well as a method for manufacturing a rotor assembly including at least four magnetic component parts.

Abstract: A motor for driving an actuator used such as for a throttle valve of an automobile engine and an optical axis controller of an automobile headlight. In two cup-shaped rotor yokes each provided with an internal diameter enlarged part at its opening, a ring-shaped joint material with an external diameter fitting into this internal diameter enlarged part is inserted into the internal diameter enlarged part to form a rotor yoke assembly. A motor is available with high durability against vibration and shock owing to high accuracy in dimensions, lightweight, and high rigidity of the rotor.

Abstract: A motor rotor includes a hub having a peripheral wall. A metal ring includes an engaging portion. The metal ring is formed by bending a strip of metal plate to form a cylindrical ring. The metal plate includes first and second positioning portions on two ends thereof. The first and second positioning portions are coupled with each other to form the engaging portion. The metal ring is coupled to an inner peripheral face of the peripheral wall of the hub. A magnet ring is coupled to an inner peripheral face of the metal ring.

Abstract: Permanent-magnet holding projections provided at end portions of adjacent segment core pieces that face each other have connecting portions at the centers of the permanent-magnet holding projections. Permanent-magnet holding projections included in the segment core pieces that are on either side of the permanent-magnet holding projections having the connecting portions in a thickness direction are provided with receiving portions for receiving bulging portions that bulge in the thickness direction when the connecting portions are bent.

Abstract: Disclosed is a torque rotor and method for manufacturing the torque rotor having an effect of preventing inflow of plastic between a yoke and a magnet during a conventional plastic injection molding process for forming an assembling structure after assembling between the yoke and the magnet, thereby preventing degradation of a roundness of the magnet or damage of the magnet due to the difference in the temperature expansion coefficients, and preventing idle rotation of the yoke and the magnet relative to each other.

Abstract: A method for producing a radially anisotropic ring magnet having at least one axial groove on the inner surface comprises using a die comprising a cylindrical, magnetic core, a magnetic sleeve having an axial ridge in alignment with the groove on the outer surface and disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the core, and an outer, cylindrical die member defining a cavity for forming the ring magnet with the magnetic sleeve, and compression-molding magnet powder charged into the cavity while applying a magnetic field in a radial direction, and a radially anisotropic ring magnet substantially having a composition of R-TM-B, wherein R is at least one of rare earth elements including Y, TM is at least one of transition metals, and B is boron, having at least one axial groove on the inner surface, and magnetized such that centerlines between magnetic poles do not overlap grooves.

Abstract: A rotor assembly for mounting a rotor to a motor shaft having a rotor with a centrally positioned central bore, the diameter of which is slightly larger than a diameter of the motor shaft, a first stepped bore intersecting the central bore and being aligned along a first axis of the rotor, and a second stepped bore also intersecting the central bore and being aligned along a second axis of the rotor. A first cam fastener is disposed within the first stepped bore, and a second cam fastener is disposed within the second stepped bore. Upon rotating the first and second cam fasteners, they engage the motor shaft thereby securely clamping the rotor to the motor shaft.

Abstract: In a motor, an upper surface of a flange portion of a shaft is arranged axially below a bottom end surface of a rotor core. A spacer having an axial thickness slightly greater than that of the flange portion is arranged on a radially outer side of the flange portion. A bottom surface of the spacer makes contact with an end plate whose inner circumferential surface has a radius, centered about a central axis, smaller than a radius of the flange portion. The end plate is secured to the rotor core via a fixing member.

Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric motor is described that includes a rotor shaft, a ferromagnetic core mounted on the rotor shaft, and at least one cylindrical shaped magnet configured to engage and substantially surround the length of the ferromagnetic core. The at least one magnet is fabricated utilizing neodymium.

Abstract: A cup-shaped sleeve is made mainly of a resin and has an end where a plurality of pieces of a permanent magnet are insert-molded. An auxiliary ring made mainly of a resin is provided along an inner peripheral surface of the cup-shaped sleeve other than an inner peripheral surface thereof where the permanent magnet is provided. The auxiliary ring has its inner peripheral surface identical to the inner peripheral surface of the permanent magnet or located outside relative to the inner peripheral surface of the permanent magnet. When the cup-shaped sleeve is resin-molded, the resin which is a component of the cup-shaped sleeve is prevented from shrinking inward. Therefore, contact between the resin supporting the permanent magnet and the cylinder is prevented. Accordingly, a linear drive device is obtained in which the reciprocation of the piston is prevented from being hindered.

Abstract: An axial air-gap electronic motor is arranged such that a teeth surface of a stator and a magnet surface of a rotor are arranged opposedly with a predetermined gap therebetween along an axis line direction of an output shaft of the rotor. The rotor has a rotor back yoke arranged coaxially with the stator, and a rotor magnet installed to the rotor back yoke so as to face the teeth surface of the stator. The rotor magnet is provided with an anchor magnet which is integral with the rotor magnet and is arranged on a back surface side of the rotor back yoke.

Abstract: A pole assembly for a rotor, the pole assembly includes a permanent magnet pole including at least one permanent magnet block, a plurality of laminations including a pole cap mechanically coupled to the pole, and a plurality of laminations including a base plate mechanically coupled to the pole.

Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor for a brushless electrical machine has a rotor shaft and a cylindrical plastic cage. Permanent magnets are inserted in this plastic cage. The plastic cage has dovetailed retainers. The permanent magnets are trapezoidal in shape and are inserted so as to fit tightly in the dovetailed retainers.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a rotor of an electric brushless motor configured to be light weight and prevent vibrations generated during an operation of the motor to be transferred to the shaft of the rotor. The rotor includes a shaft elongated in a rotational axis, a single body magnet comprising alternately magnetized portions, and a vibration absorption portion interposed between the shaft and single body magnet. The vibration absorption portion absorbs vibrations generated during the operation of the motor and can include an elastic or a non-elastic material. The rotor further includes a non-elastic portion inhibiting the expansion of the vibration absorption portion when the vibration portion is elastic.

Abstract: A rotor for a brushless motor which can securely prevent an idle running and a scattering of a magnet while restricting a manufacturing cost as low as possible. The rotor is provided with a sintered ring magnet in which not-ground recess portions are formed in an axial direction of a inner peripheral surface in correspondence to a magnetic pole, and a portion between the recess portions is ground in an inner peripheral surface having a desired inner diameter, a rotor yoke in which convex portions each having a larger diameter than the inner diameter of the sintered ring magnet are formed in an axial direction of an outer peripheral surface in correspondence to the recess portion, and a through hole is pierced in an axial center, and which is concentrically adhered to the sintered ring magnet by fitting the recess portions and the convex portions, and a shaft inserted and fitted to the through hole of the rotor yoke.

Abstract: A rotor of a motor includes a cylindrical magnet having at least one first coupling portion at an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical magnet; and a rotor core coupled with the cylindrical magnet, the rotor core having at least one second coupling portion at an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core, the at least one second coupling portion being engaged with the corresponding at least one first coupling portion.

Abstract: A stator of an electric motor is formed by inserting pre-formed magnets on a cylinder having anchors and plastic is molded around the magnets and anchors to secure the magnets to a surface of the cylinder, forming a cylinder/magnet assembly. A pilot feature is formed in at least one endwall of the plastic molding when it is molded. An end plate is located with respect to the cylinder/magnet assembly by mating a corresponding pilot feature of the end plate with the pilot feature in the endwall of the plastic molding. In another aspect of the invention, magnets are inserted into magnet receiving pockets of a cylinder and plastic molded therearound with the magnet pockets holding the magnets in place during molding of the plastic. In another aspect of the invention, the north and south poles of a cylinder and magnet assembly have unequal distribution angles. In another aspect of the invention, the north and south poles of a cylinder and magnet assembly have unequal numbers of magnets.

Abstract: The invention relates to a brushless electric motor comprising a stator, which has pole elements, and a rotor, which is mounted rotatably in relation to the stator and comprises magnet poles of magnetic powder material bonded to form a body and a back yoke body carrying the magnet poles, the magnet poles being formed by at least one molded magnetic body, which is molded with a back yoke side onto the back yoke body.

Abstract: The disclosure describes a DC motor including a rotor unit arranged within the motor body and has a cylindrical field magnet fixed to an outer surface of a holder. The holder has a rotating shaft press-fitted through the center, and the cylindrical field magnet has the S and the N poles alternately around a circumference. There is a stator unit which is circumferentially arranged around the rotor unit, that is made of a plurality of stator yokes that are arranged so that they oppose the field magnet through a small gap. Each of the stator yokes is formed by circumferentially stacking a large number of thin plates, each consisting of a salient pole, and a number of coil units, each formed by winding a magnet wire on a bobbin, and mounting the bobbins on the stator yokes. In the described arrangement, each of the S and N poles has a plurality of stages formed in an axial direction and shifted from each other in the circumferential direction by a predetermined shift amount with respect to the field magnet.

Abstract: An electric motor for a hybrid vehicle includes a rotor disposed and coupled between an internal combustion engine and a transmission, the rotor being coupled, at one end thereof in a direction of a rotation axis, to a crank shaft of the internal combustion engine and, at the other end, to the transmission via a drive plate; a through hole provided to extend in the direction of the rotation axis through the rotor; a fastening hole provided respectively in an end face of the crank shaft and in the drive plate to face, and be in communication with, the through hole; and a fastening member mounted in the through hole and in each of the fastening holes such that the rotor is fixed between the crank shaft and the drive plate. A desired performance is secured easily while preventing an excess increase in the cost for producing rotors.

Abstract: A permanent magnet motor has rotor structure that includes magnetically permeable backing material attached to magnets for enhancing flux density distribution. A plurality of permanent magnets are circumferentially distributed about an axis of rotation, adjacent magnets successively alternating in magnetic polarity. The magnetically permeable material is configured with apertures therethrough at areas of low flux density, such as at central portions of the magnets, while in contact with perimeter areas of the magnets. Additional apertures in the material may be located at spaced intersections at which no significant flux density exists. The apertures may be replaced with backing material portions of reduced radial thickness.

Abstract: The invention relates to a brushless electric motor comprising a stator, which has pole elements, and a rotor, which is mounted rotatably in relation to the stator and comprises magnet poles of magnetic powder material bonded to form a body and a back yoke body carrying the magnet poles, the magnet poles being formed by at least one molded magnetic body, which is molded with a back yoke side onto the back yoke body.

Abstract: A rotor for an electric rotary machine having signal generating inductor magnetic poles provided on a periphery thereof comprising a cup-like rotor yoke having a peripheral wall and a bottom wall and an inductor forming member mounted on the peripheral wall of the cup-like yoke and including a ring-like portion fitted onto the peripheral wall of the rotor yoke and having the inductor magnetic poles formed thereon and securely mounted on the rotor yoke by forcing protrusions formed on the peripheral wall of the rotor yoke against the both axial ends of the ring-like portion.

Abstract: A rotary direct current electric motor in which rotor and stator members are each configured as annular rings, concentric with respect to each other, about an axis of rotation. Either of the rotor or stator members is formed of groups of electromagnet pole pairs, the groups substantially equidistantly distributed along the angular extent of the annular ring, each of the groups comprising magnetic material magnetically isolated and separated from the other groups. The other member includes a plurality of permanent magnet poles substantially equidistantly distributed with alternating magnetic polarity along the angular extent of the radial air gap formed between the members, the permanent magnet poles having a discontinuous magnetic return path, thereby dividing the member into magnetically isolated groups of permanent magnet poles.

Abstract: A flywheel having a molded cage formed around a plurality of magnets attached to the flywheel. The cage extends into one or more grooves formed in the flywheel to resist the shrinkage of the cage inside diameter as it cools following an injection molding process. The gap between the cage and magnets and an adjacent stator is precisely controlled and minimized. Shutoff surfaces formed on the flywheel function as a portion of the die for injection molding of the cage.