Patent ID: 8981611
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: H02K

Abstract:
1. A rotor comprising: a plurality of magnetic pole portions arranged along a circumferential direction of a rotor core, wherein each of the magnetic pole portions includes a magnet forming one of two magnetic poles; and first and second ferric core portions arranged in the rotor core and located between adjacent ones of the magnetic pole portions in the circumferential direction, wherein one ferric core portion of the first ferric core portions and the second ferric core portions is located between adjacent magnetic pole portions, wherein each of the first and second ferric core portions functions as the other one of the magnetic poles, a first gap is formed between each of the first and second ferric core portions and a magnetic pole portion located at a first circumferential side, a second gap is formed between each of the first and second ferric core portions and a magnetic pole portion located at a second circumferential side, the first gap at the first circumferential side of the first ferric core portion has a smaller width than the second gap at the second circumferential side of the first ferric core portion, the first ferric core portion is inclined toward the first circumferential side, the first gap at the first circumferential side of the second ferric core portion has a larger width than the second gap at the second circumferential side of the second ferric core portion, and the second ferric core portion is inclined toward the second circumferential side, the rotor further comprising a first rotor portion, a second rotor portion, and a magnetic resistance portion, wherein the magnetic pole portions of the first rotor portion have a polarity that is one of north and south poles, the second rotor portion is overlapped with the first rotor portion in the axial direction through the magnetic resistance portion, the magnetic pole portions of the second rotor portion have a polarity that differs from that of the magnetic pole portions in the first rotor portion, the first and second ferric core portions of the second rotor portion have the same polarity as the magnetic pole portions of the first rotor portion, the first and second ferric core portions of the second rotor portion are overlapped with the magnetic pole portions of the first rotor portion in the axial direction, the first and second ferric core portions of the first rotor portion have the same polarity as the magnetic pole portions of the second rotor portion, and the first and second ferric core portions of the first rotor portion are overlapped with the magnetic pole portions of the second rotor portion in the axial direction.