Patent ID: 7285885

Claim:
A small motor comprising: a rotor including a rotor shaft and a permanent magnet which is fixed to an outer periphery of the rotor shaft, and the base end is formed in a hemispheric shape; a stator having pole teeth which face the permanent magnet in a radial direction; a bearing member which supports a base end on an opposite-to-output end of the rotor shaft in the radial direction and a thrust direction; and a bearing holding member which holds the bearing member, the bearing holding member being formed in a thin plate-shaped elastic member and the bearing holding member including a bearing holding part which holds the bearing member, at least an arm part which is extended outward from the bearing holding part in the radial direction in a spiral manner, and an outer peripheral part which is connected to the arm part at a position outward in the radial direction of the bearing holding part and which is fixed to the stator, wherein the arm parts of the bearing holding member are forcibly bent on the opposite-to-output side so that the bearing member is capable moving in the axial direction and pressurization is applied to the bearing member on the output end side by an urging force of the arm parts of the bearing holding member, wherein the bearing member is made of resin and shaped in a bottomed cylinder, and an inner side bottom face of the bottomed cylinder is formed in a mortar shape having a tapered face, wherein the base end of the rotor shaft is inserted into the bottomed cylinder of the bearing member such that the hemispheric shape of the rotor shaft is supported by the mortar-shape having the tapered face of the bearing member, wherein a restriction member for restricting a moving amount in the thrust direction of the rotor wherein the restriction member is a ring-shaped member which is made of resin and attached on an outside face in the thrust direction of a stator core constructing the stator, and the restriction member is provided with a moving restriction part which protrudes on an output end side of the rotor shaft in the thrust direction and is positioned on an inner peripheral side of the stator core, wherein the restriction member is disposed between the outside face of the thrust direction of the stator core and the bearing holding member and the moving restriction part of the restriction member is provided with an abutting part which is capable of abutting with the end face on the opposite-to-output end side of the permanent magnet when pressurization is applied to the bearing member on the output side, a space is secured between the arm parts and the restriction member and a second space between the end face on the opposite-to-output end side of the permanent magnet and the abutting part of the moving restriction part is secured.