Patent ID: 8405342

Claim:
A motor comprising: a stator including a stator core, which has a plurality of teeth, and a plurality of coils, which are wound around the teeth; a rotor including a rotor core, which faces toward the stator, a plurality of magnets, which are arranged on the rotor core in a circumferential direction of the rotor core and function as first magnetic poles, and salient poles, which are formed integrally with the rotor core, with each of the salient poles being arranged between adjacent ones of the magnets and spaced apart by a clearance from the magnets, and the salient poles functioning as second magnetic poles that differ from the first magnetic poles; and a current supply unit that supplies three-phase excitation currents to the plurality of coils to drive and rotate the rotor; wherein when P represents the number of poles in the rotor and S represents the number of coils, a ratio P/S of the pole number P and the coil number S is represented by (4n−2)/3m (where n and m are integers that are greater than or equal to 2, and S is not equal to P); the plurality of coils include a plurality of coil groups including coils for three phases; the plurality of coils include first coil groups for three phases and second coil groups for three phases, the first coil group of each phase includes coils of the same phase having different winding directions and facing toward each other in a radial direction, the second coil group of each phase includes coils of the same phase having different winding directions and facing toward each other in a radial direction, and the second coil group of each phase arranged adjacent in the circumferential direction to a first coil group of the same phase so that adjacent coils of the same phase have different winding directions; and the current supply unit executes different current control on the first coil groups and second coil groups so as to set a phase difference θ in an energized state between the first and second coil groups so as to satisfy 0°<θ≦2×|180°×(ratio P/S−1)|.