Patent ID: 9546445
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: D06F,H02K

Claim:
1. A washing machine comprising: a body; a tub disposed within the body; a drum rotatably disposed within the tub; and a motor coupled to a rear surface of the tub to drive the drum, wherein the motor comprises: wherein: the stator comprises a core body, a plurality of supports adapted to extend from the core body in a radial direction, a first coil wound around the neighboring ones of the supports of a first one and a second one of the stator cores neighboring each other, and a second coil wound around one of the magnets disposed between neighboring ones of the plurality of supports, and the plurality of magnets extend partially a radial length of the plurality of stator cores and the second coil is wound around each of the plurality of magnets in the radial direction.