Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for multistage molding of contact lenses containing low oxygen permeable components or oxygen impermeable components. Components may be embedded within a contact lens by forming a device on a polymer substrate, molding a spacer onto a male mold, bonding the device to the spacer, removing the polymer substrate, and molding the remainder of the contact lens.

Abstract: A centrifugal blower includes a motor part having a rotor provided on a rotating shaft of an impeller, a coil provided around the rotor, and a motor housing that accommodates a coil, an inverter part having an inverter unit that supplies drive power to the motor part, and an inverter housing connected to the motor housing and configured to accommodate the inverter unit, and a cooling fan that is provided on the rotating shaft, rotates with the impeller and allows cooling air to flow through the inverter housing and the motor housing in order, wherein the inverter unit is disposed to be arranged with respect to the coil in a direction of a rotation axis of the rotor.

Abstract: A stand-alone motor unit for use with a piece of power equipment includes a housing and a flange coupled to the housing on a first side thereof. A plurality of apertures through the flange defines a first bolt pattern that matches an identical, second bolt pattern defined in the piece of power equipment. An electric motor has a power output of at least about 2760 W. The motor includes a stator having a nominal outer diameter of up to about 80 mm and a rotor supported for rotation within the stator. A power take-off shaft receives torque from the rotor and protrudes from one of the flange or a second side of the housing. A controller is positioned within the housing and electrically connected to the motor. A battery pack for powering the motor has battery cells having a nominal voltage of up to about 80 V.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lubricating composition comprising at least one base oil and at least one additive chosen from anti-wear additives, extreme pressure additives, antioxidants, anti-corrosion additives, metal deactivator additives, anti-foam agents, dispersants and mixtures thereof, said composition having a boron concentration less than or equal to 100 ppm by weight and a nitrogen concentration strictly greater than 100 ppm by weight and less than or equal to 500 ppm by weight, with respect to the total weight of the lubricating composition.

Abstract: A device has a housing and rotors rotatably coupled to the housing. Each rotor has a magnet on at least one side of the rotor. Printed circuit board (PCB) stators are located axially between the rotors and coupled to the housing. The PCB stators have layers, and each layer has coils. The number of rotors disks is equal to the number of stators plus one. The stators are interleaved with the rotors. A shaft is coupled to the rotors and the housing. The shaft has a hollow section coupled to a source of a liquid coolant through a rotary connector and to radial channels in the shaft that dispense a liquid coolant between the rotors and PCB stators. The shaft has flanges with different diameters configured to receive the rotors disks with respective matching bore diameters. In addition, the housing has a sump to collect the liquid coolant.

Abstract: A speed reducer according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: speed reducing units for decelerating a rotational driving force of an electric motor and transmitting the decelerated rotational driving force to a rotational driving unit; and a ring gear meshing with a gear decelerated by a speed reducing unit on the electric motor side in a direction of a rotational axis of the electric motor. The ring gear is provided with a water-cooling channel that communicates cooling water. The water-cooling channel includes a first groove having a small depth and a second groove having a larger depth and extends in a C-shape as the ring gear is viewed from the direction of the rotational axis. The ring gear is provided with a motor flange mounted to the electric motor. The motor flange is provided with an inlet port and an outlet port connected to the water-cooling channel.

Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine assembly includes a rotating assembly and a sensor. The rotating assembly is configured to rotate about an axis. The rotating assembly includes an engine shaft and a phonic wheel threaded onto the engine shaft. The phonic wheel includes a lubricant scoop. The sensor is configured to measure fluctuations in a magnetic field induced by the phonic wheel during rotation of the rotating assembly about the axis.

Abstract: An electric machine grounding system with low impedance includes a rotor that has a shaft assembly and that is configured to rotate about an axis. The shaft assembly has a surface. A housing supports the shaft assembly for rotation of the rotor. A holder extends from the housing. A ground assembly is held between the holder and the shaft assembly and includes a plurality of strands that extend to the surface to ground the shaft assembly to the housing.

Abstract: A motor-integrated fan 1 including one or more motors integrated therein comprises: a shaft part 11 which serves as a supporting system disposed at the center of a rotational axis; a rotation part 12 which is a rotating system rotating about the shaft part 11; a duct 13 which serves as a supporting system provided on the outer periphery of the shaft part 11; and a motor 14 which rotates the rotation part 12, wherein the rotation part 12 comprises: a plurality of blades 32 rotatably supported at least on the shaft part 11 and rotating thereabout, the blades 32 being arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotational axis I; and a rotation support ring 33 connected on one side of each of the blades 32 in a radial direction of the rotational axis, the rotation support ring 33 supporting the plurality of blades 32.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator, a rotor, a housing and a shaft. The stator is connected to the housing via an electrically insulating torque support. An electrically insulating flange is disposed on the shaft. The shaft is connected to a flange of a bearing shaft via said flange, the bearing shaft housed in a bearing which is arranged in the housing.

Abstract: A discharge device for discharging an electrical charge and/or voltage from a rotor of an electric motor via a shaft from a first discharge partner to a second discharge partner, the discharge device including a support body device, wherein the support body device includes a connecting portion for electrical and mechanical connection to one of the discharge partners and expanding portions for expanding the connection of the support body device to the one of the discharge partners, wherein the expanding portions include the connecting portion.

Abstract: Rotor bearings for ESP motors can include anti-rotation tabs configured to engage with a stator during assembly of the ESP motor. Prior to insertion of the rotor bearing within the stator, the anti-rotation tabs may be held in place within axial slots in the outer surface of a bearing bushing of the rotor bearing using retention rings. The retention rings and the bearing bushing may be configured to allow for interference fit.

Abstract: An electric motor and an electrical appliance are provided. The electric motor includes a rotating shaft, a stator, a rotor disposed on the rotating shaft, spaced apart from the stator, and embedded in the stator, a first end cover, and a first bearing. The first bearing includes a first outer ring fixed on the first end cover and insulated from at least part of the first end cover, a first inner ring embedded in the first outer ring, and a first ball disposed between the first outer ring and the first inner ring. The rotating shaft is fixed on the first inner ring and rotationally supported on the first end cover. The part of the first end cover that is insulated from the first outer ring is short-circuited with a stator core of the stator and is grounded.

Abstract: A method includes pumping coolant into a cooling system of a generator while the generator is generating electrical power. The method includes regulating flow into the cooling system using a pressure relief valve to recirculate a portion of the coolant back to an inlet of the pump. Using the pressure relief valve includes actuating the pressure relief valve based on input from the cooling system and/or from the generator.

Abstract: A power transmission device, includes a motor; a gear mechanism connected downstream of the motor; a drive shaft connected downstream of the gear mechanism and disposed passing through an inner periphery of the motor; a pump that sucks oil through a pump inlet; and a plate that includes a facing surface facing the gear mechanism in an axial direction. The pump inlet is disposed adjacent to the plate on a back surface side of the facing surface.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of beads a linking assembly joining the beads together. The beads and the linking assembly are arranged in an annular arrangement and sized to form a loop around an anatomical structure in a patient. The loop may move between a contracted and expanded configuration. The loop is magnetically biased toward the contracted configuration by a magnetic bias of the beads. Each bead includes a housing having a first piece and a second piece that together define a magnetic chamber. A magnetic is within the magnetic chamber. A weld joins the first piece and the second piece while hermetically sealing the magnet chamber. The first piece of the housing includes a mounting feature integrated with a surface of the first piece. The mounting feature mates with a fixture to constrain the first piece of the housing as the weld is formed.

Abstract: An electromagnetic propulsion unit for a land-based wheeled or tracked vehicle is provided. The propulsion unit includes a balancing plate assembly with an outer plate designed to couple to a rotor assembly. In the balancing plate assembly, the outer plate includes a lip that, during rotor assembly rotation, pumps one or more fluids from an air gap formed between the rotor assembly and a stator and the outer plate is constructed out of a non-electrically conductive material.

Abstract: A bearing device includes first and second rings each having end faces and being configured to rotate relative to one another, and the second ring has an annular groove. A socket having an electrically insulating sleeve is mounted on the second ring with the insulating lining radially interposed between the second ring and the socket. End faces of the electrically insulating lining each have an annular groove with a bottom that is offset axially inward relative to the respective first and second end faces of the second ring and to the respective first and second end faces of the socket. A method includes grinding end faces of the socket and/or second ring to reduce an axial depth of the grooves in the insulating layer.

Abstract: An electric machine having a stator and a rotor is divided into sub-machine systems by winding sections of the stator or rotor that can be switched separately for each phase. A winding section of each phase is assigned to each sub-machine system. Each sub-machine system acts as an electric machine. The sub-machine systems can be operated individually or in combination, depending on the requirements placed on the electric machine; the winding sections are correspondingly switched for this purpose. The switching between the winding sections is advantageously carried out mechanically with a contact disc.

Abstract: A motor attachment structure for an electric vehicle includes: a motor generator including a tubular rotor configured to rotate together with a motor output shaft in an integrated manner, and a tubular stator placed radially outwardly from the rotor; a tubular bearing configured to rotatably support a rotating body rotating together with the motor output shaft in an integrated manner; a case in which the motor generator and the bearing are accommodated; and an attachment attached to the case. The attachment supports an outer peripheral surface of the bearing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rotary electric machine which suppresses a temperature rise of bearings by reducing heat transfer from internal air to the bearings and heat conduction from a rotor core, and improves the lubrication life of the bearings. A rotary electric machine of the present invention comprises a rotor including a shaft; a stator placed facing the rotor with a certain gap (an air gap) therebetween and supported by a stator frame; bearings which sustain the shaft; and end brackets which hold the bearings, wherein one of the end brackets includes a heat insulating layer on an inner side or an outer side of the machine to prevent heat from flowing into the bearings.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for manufacturing a hybrid component including a first thermal supplier configured to heat a steel plate, a rolling roll for undercut configured to pressurize the steel plate heated by the first thermal supplier, and to form an undercut on one surface of the steel plate, a first molding roll configured to pressurize the steel plate formed with the undercut to mold the steel plate in a shape of a component to be manufactured, a composite material feeder configured to supply a composite material tape to be seated on one surface of the steel plate formed with the undercut through the first molding roll, and a composite material pressurization roll configured to pressurize the steel plate on which the composite material tape is seated.

Abstract: An automated cleaning device includes a chassis, a controller operably connected to a drive assembly and configured to move the chassis within an area to be cleaned in repeated cleaning cycles, a cleaning unit carried by the chassis, a sensor configured to detect material drawn into the cleaning unit and provide a debris signal corresponding to an amount of material drawn into the cleaning unit, the controller being operably connected to the sensor and configured to generate a high-material indicator in response to the debris signal exceeding a predetermined debris threshold, and determining whether the autonomous cleaner is in a high traffic area when the chassis moves within the area to be cleaned based on locations of high-material indicators.

Abstract: A shaft configured to suppress damage without having an increased diameter is provided. The shaft includes a supported portion supported by a bearing and an adjacent large-diameter portion larger in diameter than the supported portion and disposed closer to a center in an axial direction than the supported portion. The shaft is configured to rotate integrally with a rotor while holding the rotor. A sectional shape of a boundary portion between the supported portion and the large-diameter portion in a longitudinal section of the shaft is an arc shape that is, on an outer side in the axial direction with respect to a virtual rising point, recessed inward from an outer edge in the radial direction of the supported portion and raised outward in the radial direction from the outer edge, as the arc shape extends from the outer to an inner side in the axial direction.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to be positioned on a tubular string in a wellbore formed in a subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises a generator assembly disposed on the tubular string and configured to output power to a downhole tool. The generator assembly includes a first generator configured to output a first power to the downhole tool. The generator includes a second generator configured to function as an exciter for the first generator.

Abstract: An actuator is provided. A movable body oscillating in an actuator has a shaft, and first and second inner frame members fixed to the shaft. A support body has a cylindrical case, a first and second lid members fixed to the ends of the case, and a first and second outer frame members disposed inside the case. The first inner frame member is connected to the first outer frame member by the first connecting body, and the second inner frame member is connected to the second outer frame member by the second connecting body. The first lid member has a pressing convex portion which abuts the first outer frame member, and the second lid member has a pressing convex portion which abuts the second outer frame member. The number of the pressing convex portions arranged spaced apart along the circumference direction is limited to two or three.

Abstract: There is provided an electric motor/generator comprising a stator and a rotor. The stator has an outer perimeter. The rotor at least coaxially encloses the outer perimeter of the stator. The rotor is rotatable relative to the stator around a rotation axis. The rotor and the stator are separated by a flux bearing gap over which in working magnetic flux occurs. The rotor and the stator are separated by a protective gap. The protective gap is configured to close, during a deformation of the rotor, before the flux bearing gap closes, thereby avoiding closure of the flux bearing gap. The motor/generator is characterized in that the stator comprises a roller bearing and an axle. The roller bearing is coupled to the axle and rotatable around the axle. The axle is arranged off-center from the rotation axis. A distance between the roller bearing and the rotor defines the protective gap.

Abstract: Electrical connectors mountable on wheels are described. An electrical connector may include a sleeve sized for mounting on a barrel of a wheel. The sleeve defines one or more channels. The electrical connector may also include one or more hollow spokes mechanically coupled with the sleeve, and one or more electrical conductors. An electrical conductor extends from a portion of the sleeve corresponding to a bead seat region through the one or more channels and a hollow spoke for electrically coupling with an electrical module positioned on a tread region of a tire mounted on the wheel. Electrical devices including such electrical connectors and electrical devices including other electrical connectors are also described.

Abstract: An electrical machine assembly including a housing, a shroud, and a terminal box coupled to the housing. The terminal box includes a base having an outer wall extending therefrom, wherein the outer wall includes a distal edge that is correspondingly shaped with the housing such that the outer wall engages with the housing and with the shroud to form a seal.

Abstract: An outer rotor brushless motor includes: a shaft; a rotor; a stator; a tubular bushing at one side of the stator; an impregnated bearing at the other side of the bushing; and a washer rotatable integrally with the shaft. The bushing has: a fixed portion fixed to a core inner peripheral surface, the fixed portion having a first end surface facing a bearing end surface, and a first inner peripheral surface facing an outer peripheral surface with first clearance in between; and a housing having a second inner peripheral surface with a greater diameter than the first inner peripheral surface, on the one side of the fixed portion. An oil repellent finish is applied to a surface of the bushing. The washer is placed radially inward of the second inner peripheral surface. Second clearance greater than the first clearance is between the bearing end surface and the first end surface.

Abstract: A bearing assembly includes a bearing unit formed from a stationary bearing ring configured to be connected to a stationary component and a rotatable bearing ring configured to be connected to a rotatable component and a bearing carrier connected to the stationary bearing ring in a rotationally fixed manner, for example, by overmolding. The bearing carrier includes at least one notch that exposes at least one section of the stationary bearing ring.

Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a motor that has a motor shaft extending in an axial direction, a transmission mechanism that is connected on one side in the axial direction of the motor shaft, a lock mechanism that restricts driving of the transmission mechanism, a housing that houses the motor, the transmission mechanism, and the lock mechanism, an oil that is stored in the housing, and an oil passage that circulates the oil. The housing includes a motor room that houses the motor, a gear room that houses the transmission mechanism and the lock mechanism, and a partition that is provided between the motor room and the gear room. The oil passage includes a pump that pumps the oil in the oil passage, a first feed flow passage that feeds the oil to the motor, and a second feed flow passage that feeds the oil to the lock mechanism.

Abstract: An electric motor comprises a stator presenting a first surface. A rotor is rotatable relative to the stator. The rotor presents a rotor raceway disposed in spaced relationship with the first surface of the stator. The first surface of the stator defines a plurality of slots in spaced relationship with one another to define a plurality of spaced teeth between the slots. At least one electrical conductor is disposed in each of the slots and configured to selectively create a moving magnetic field for acting upon the rotor for providing rotational movement of the rotor. A portion of the at least one electrical conductor extends substantially into radial alignment with, or past the first surface of the stator to at least partially define a stator raceway of the stator for engaging the rotor raceway of the rotor during relative radial movement between the rotor and the stator.

Abstract: The present application provides a bump check tool for determining a clearance between a shim of a thrust bearing and a rotor flange of a rotor shaft within a casing of a gas turbine engine. The bump check tool includes a hydraulic cylinder, a connection plate attached to the hydraulic cylinder and positioned about the rotor shaft and a support frame supporting the hydraulic cylinder and attached to the casing. The hydraulic cylinder drives the connection plate and the rotor shaft to determine the clearance between the shim of the thrust bearing and the rotor flange of the rotor shaft.

Abstract: The example of the present application provides a motor and an electrical product. The motor includes a rotor that is arranged in a rotatable manner centered on a central axis, a stator arranged on an outer circumference of the rotor and facing the rotor in a radial direction, a bus bar holder arranged on one side of the rotor and the stator in an axial direction, and a housing that is cylindrical or substantially cylindrical. The rotor, the stator, and the bus bar holder are contained inside the housing. The bus bar holder has a protrusion on one side in the axial direction, and the protrusion is in contact with the bottom of the housing.

Abstract: A fan comprises a fan frame, a motor, an impeller, a circuit board and an enclosing layer. The fan frame has a motor base disposed in a central portion thereof. The motor is mounted on the motor base and has a rotor, a stator and a bearing unit. The stator is disposed around the outer periphery of the bearing unit, and the rotor is sheathed on the stator and the bearing unit. The impeller is mounted on the motor. The circuit board is sheathed on the bearing unit and located between the stator and the motor base, and has a plurality of electronic components disposed on a first surface thereof. The stator and the circuit board are enclosed by the enclosing layer, and the plurality of electronic components are enclosed by the uniform enclosing layer with a specific thickness.

Abstract: A rotary-type series elastic actuator (SEA) for use in robotic applications. The SEA including a motor, gear transmission assembly, spring assembly, and sensors. In one example, a robotic joint may include the SEA as well as two links coupled with each other at the joint assembly. The two links may be designated as input and output links. Each link may have a joint housing body which may be concentrically connected via a joint bearing so that they freely rotate against each other. The housing frame of the SEA may be fixed at the joint housing body of the input link while the output mount of the spring assembly of the SEA may be concentrically coupled with the joint housing body of the output link. The rotation of the motor rotor causes the rotation of the output link with respect to the input link plus spring deflection of the spring assembly.

Abstract: Anti-rotation bearing assemblies for electric submersible pumps are provided. An electric submersible pump includes a plurality of centrifugal pump stages, each stage including a rotating impeller and a stationary diffuser mounted on a shaft coupled to a motor. In use, the motor rotates the shaft, which rotates the impeller within the stationary diffuser. A bearing assembly can include a bearing sleeve disposed about the shaft and a bushing disposed radially between the bearing sleeve and the diffuser. The bearing sleeve rotates with the shaft in operation, and the bushing remains stationary with the diffuser. The bushing can have an external key that is received in a key way or groove in the diffuser to act as an anti-rotation feature. In other variations, the bushing can have an eccentric or oblique profile, which can act as an anti-rotation feature.

Abstract: This application discloses a water pump with a suspension function, including: a pump casing, a pump cover, a motor, a pressing ring, a volute and a base. In this way, the water pump with the suspension function disclosed in this application has an upper part suspended on a water surface to clarify the position of the water pump, thus preventing the problem of being buried by underwater mud and sucking in underwater impurities, and protecting a sealing structure at the upper part of the pump casing.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a shaft, a rotor core, and a permanent magnet, and a stator surrounding the rotor. The permanent magnet forms a magnet magnetic pole, a part of the rotor core forms a virtual magnetic pole. The motor includes first and second bearings support the shaft, and further includes first and second bearing support portions. Of the first and second bearings, the first bearing is located on the load side. A distance D1 from the center axis to the inner circumferential surface of the first bearing support portion, a distance D2 from the center axis to the inner circumferential surface of the second bearing support portion, a distance d1 from the center axis to the outer circumferential surface of the first bearing, and a distance d2 from the center axis to the outer circumferential surface of the second bearing satisfy D1?d1<D2?d2.

Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas turbocharger having a hydrodynamic plain bearing or a hydrodynamic plain bearing, comprising a rotor (10) and a counter-bearing part (50) assigned to the rotor (10), wherein a rotor bearing surface of the rotor (10) and a counterface of the counter-bearing part (50) face each other to form the hydrodynamic plain bearing in the form of a combined journal—thrust bearing, having a continuous hydrodynamically load bearing gap formed between the rotor bearing surface and the counterface, wherein the rotor bearing surface and/or the counterface, when cut longitudinally and through the axis of rotation (R) in sectional view, form(s) a bearing contour forming merging contour sections (17.1 to 17.3; 44.1 to 44.3; 53.1 to 53.3) to generate hydrodynamic load capacities in both the radial and the axial direction, wherein a contour section (17.3; 44.3; 53.

Abstract: A power transmission device, includes a motor; a gear mechanism connected downstream of the motor; a pump that sucks oil through a pump inlet; and a box that includes a first chamber accommodating the gear mechanism and a second chamber provided with the pump inlet.

Abstract: A power tool includes a housing and a brushless motor with a rotor and a stator assembly. The motor defines a motor envelope bounded by a rear plane at a rearmost point of the stator assembly and rotor, a front plane at a frontmost point of the stator assembly and rotor, and a generally cylindrical boundary surrounding a radially outermost portion of the stator assembly and rotor. A rotor shaft is rotatably driven by the rotor. A transmission includes an input member rotatably driven by the rotor shaft and an output member. A first bearing supporting the rotor shaft is at least partially received within the motor envelope. A second bearing supporting the rotor shaft or a component of the transmission is at least partially received within the motor envelope. A support plate supporting a component of the transmission may be at least partially received within the motor envelope.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator and first and second electrical insulator assemblies at opposite ends of the stator. A crossover wire extends along an outer wall part of the second insulator. A cover for covering the crossover wire is mounted onto the second electrical insulator assembly via a mounting mechanism. The mounting mechanism includes an engagement recess formed in an inner peripheral surface of the outer wall part of the second electrical insulator assembly and an engagement piece formed within a recess of the cover which engagement piece has a claw configured to be locked to an engagement recess forming face that defines the engagement recess.

Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire has an inner annular body centered on a rotation axis portion, an outer annular body provided radially outward of the inner annular body, a wheel portion including a connecting member elastically deforming and for connecting the inner annular body and the outer annular body, and a tread portion provided radially outward of the outer annular body and in contact with a road. The non-pneumatic tire is provided with an electrode portion which is in contact with the tread portion and is provided on the radially inner side of tread portion, and a wiring portion which connects the electrode portion and the inner annular body and is formed of a conductor. A part of the wheel portion is formed of a nonmetallic material, and the electrode portion is formed of a conductor having a prescribed width in tire width direction and a prescribed length in tire circumferential direction.

Abstract: In a rotor of a motor or the like, in order to suppress scattering of a part of a magnet provided around a rotating shaft, the rotor has a cylindrical magnet through which the rotating shaft passes, a first holder which covers the magnet from one side in an axial direction of the rotating shaft and a second holder which covers the magnet from the other side in the axial direction. The magnet is press-fitted into a first body portion of the first holder and a second body portion of the second holder, and a first end of the first body portion and a second end of the second body portion are joined by welding or the like. An inner diameter of the first end and the inner diameter of the second end are larger than an outer diameter of the magnet.

Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, at least two bearings supporting the shaft, a magnet supported by the shaft between the at least two bearings, a stator surrounding the magnet, and a magnetic member arranged between the magnet and at least one of the bearings in a longitudinal direction of the shaft. The magnetic member has a large outer diameter with respect to an outer diameter of the magnet.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a stiffness enhancing mechanism for a magnetic suspension bearing, a magnetic suspension bearing including the stiffness enhancing mechanism, and a blood pump. The magnetic suspension bearing comprises a stator with stator teeth and a rotor disposed within the stator. The stiffness enhancing mechanism comprises: a rotor permanent magnet, a stator permanent magnet, and an axial driving body. The rotor permanent magnet and the rotor of the magnetic suspension bearing form a rotor assembly, which has an asymmetric structure with respect to the main plane (P) of the rotor. The stiffness enhancing mechanism is configured such that the stator permanent magnet generates a radial attractive force to the rotor permanent magnet, and the axial driving body generates an axial repulsive force to the rotor permanent magnet, wherein the magnitude of the axial repulsive force is variable with a change of an axial distance between the axial driving body and the rotor permanent magnet.

Abstract: A drive motor for a suction device (400) or a machine tool in the form of a hand-held power tool (200, 300) or a semi-stationary machine tool. The drive motor (20, 120) has a stator (80) with an excitation coil assembly (86) and a rotor (40, 140) with a motor shaft (30, 130) which is rotatably mounted about a rotational axis (D) on the stator or relative to the stator (80) by means of a bearing assembly (24A) and which passes through a shaft through-opening (42, 142) of a laminated core (41, 141) held on the motor shaft (30, 130). The rotor (40, 140) has a magnet assembly (50) with at least one permanent magnet such that the rotor (40, 140) can be rotated about the rotational axis (D) by energizing the excitation coil assembly (86).

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a motor including: a rotor configured to rotate about a central axis; a stator disposed radially opposite the rotor with a clearance defined between the stator and the rotor; a housing accommodating the rotor and the stator; a bearing supporting the rotor in a rotatable manner; a bearing holder holding the bearing, the bearing holder being fixed to the housing; a rotation sensor configured to detect rotation of the rotor; and a sensor holder disposed in the bearing holder to hold the rotation sensor. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the motor includes a position adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a circumferential position of the rotation sensor by integrally rotating the bearing holder and the sensor holder relative to the housing in a circumferential direction.