Patent ID: 6249066
Filing Date: 2001-06-19
Classification: H02K

Abstract:
A stepping motor comprising:a stator having a stator core and a winding;a pair of bearings;a rotor arranged in an inner peripheral side of said stator and rotatably supported through said pair of bearings; anda pair of brackets, each of said pair of brackets fitted to a respective end portion of said stator in an axial direction thereof;a pair of internally fitted members, each of said pair of internally fitted members disposed at a corresponding end portion of said stator in the axial direction thereof, each of said pair of internally fitted members having a first fitted portion internally fitted to an inner peripheral surface of the corresponding end portion of said stator;wherein said stator is sandwiched in a radial direction thereof by the first fitted portions of said pair of internally fitted members and second fitted portions of said pair of brackets, each of the second fitted portions being externally fitted to an outer peripheral surface of the corresponding end portion of said stator in the axial direction thereof; andwherein said pair of internally fitted members and said pair of brackets are separately formed so that said pair of brackets are freely positioned with respect to said pair internally fitted members in a radial direction thereof.