US 7,589,443 B2
Motor
Nakaba Kataoka, Kyoto (Japan); Takayuki Migita, Kyoto (Japan); and Hidehiro Haga, Kyoto (Japan)
Assigned to Nidec Corporation, Kyoto (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 29, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/39,825.
Claims priority of application No. 2007-051337 (JP), filed on Mar. 01, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2008/0211357 A1, Sep. 04, 2008
Int. Cl. H02K 11/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 310—68B 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A motor comprising:
a stator portion including an armature;
a rotor portion including a shaft concentric with a central axis, a rotor core having a substantially cylindrical shape arranged to surround the shaft, and a field magnet which is arranged at the rotor core and which, along with the armature, generates a torque centered about the central axis;
a bearing mechanism arranged to rotatably support the rotor portion with respect to the stator portion centered about the central axis, the bearing mechanism including a first bearing portion and a second bearing portion respectively arranged at a first axial side and a second axial side of the rotor core to support the shaft in a rotatable manner;
a sensor arranged at an axial side of the armature to magnetically detect an angular position of the rotor core with respect to the stator portion; the sensor including:
a yoke having a substantially annular share, made of a magnetic material and arranged at the shaft;
a sensor magnet having a substantially annular share arranged at the yoke;
a magnet cover made of a nonmagnetic material covering a surface of the sensor magnet other than a portion thereof in contact with the yoke; and
a Hall element arranged opposite from the yoke with respect to the sensor magnet;
a housing arranged to accommodate therein the stator portion and the rotor portion, the housing including a housing body having an opening at an axial side thereof; and
a lid portion arranged between the armature and the sensor magnet so as to retain the first bearing portion and close the opening of the housing body.